Series Editors:
Timon Beyes, Mercedes Bunz and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
In Search of Media
This international series copublished with Meson Press is edited by Timon Beyes, Mercedes Bunz, and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun draws together a group of key thinkers of media to investigate the ways media technologies set the terms by which we live, socialize, communicate, organize, do scholarship, etc. In Search of Media is a series that brings together a group of established and innovative scholars from different continents in each volume to collaboratively explore a term from diverse perspectives. In original collaborations, they investigate the often obscure “terms of media” under which users operate and rigorously question the limits, conditions, and relations of media to uncover new ground for contemporary media studies.
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Books in this Series
Media and Management
An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor
Pattern Discrimination
How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
Technopharmacology
Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals
Archives
How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
Boundary Images
How are images made, and how should we understand their limits, capacities, and forces in digital media?
Really Fake
More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake
Digital Energetics
Exploring the connections between energy and media—and what those connections mean for our current moment
Undoing Networks
Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting
Neural Networks
A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices