Remain

2019

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Authors:

Iona B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka, and Rebecca Schneider

Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures

As new, as current, as now—this is primarily our understanding of technologies, but past practices continue to haunt our present arrangements. This volume addresses the temporalities and materialities of remain(s) and considerations of cultural memory as well as of infrastructure and the natural history of media culture.

Tags

Film and Media, Art and Performance, Theory and Philosophy, 2019 Cultural Studies/Art/Media catalog, 2019 Social Sciences catalog

As new, as current, as now—this is primarily our understanding of technologies and their mediating of our social constructions. But past media and past practices continue to haunt and inflect our present social and technical arrangements. To trace this haunting, two performance theorists and a media theorist engage in this volume with remains and remainders of media cultures through the lenses of theatre and performance studies and of media archaeology. They address the temporalities and materialities of remain(s), the production of obsolescence in relation to the live body, and considerations of cultural memory as well as of infrastructure and the natural history of media culture.

Rebecca Schneider is professor of theatre arts and performance studies at Brown University. She is the author of Theatre and History, Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment, and The Explicit Body in PerformanceA Slow Contemporary Violence, A Geology of Media (Minnesota, 2015), The Anthrobscene (Minnesota, 2014), What Is Media Archaeology?, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (Minnesota, 2010), and Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer VirusesCosmology of Worlds Apart.