meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media in open access. meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media.
Its publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities today. Our publications combine peer-review with hybrid formats and novel collaborative methods such as book sprints. Even though the scholarly book is changing in the age of digital media, we strongly believe in the many virtues of its format for academic communication. meson press is run by members of the
Hybrid Publishing Lab at Leuphana University of Lüneburg which experiments with Open Access monographs.
We are deeply saddened that the wonderful author and scholar Marie-Luise Angerer has passed away far too soon. Her pioneering thoughts and texts will continue to inspire us. We will miss her.
Wir sind traurig, dass die wunderbare Autorin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Marie-Luise Angerer viel zu früh verstorben ist. Ihre klugen, lebendigen Texte und wegweisenden Überlegungen zu Medien werden uns weiter begleiten. Sie hat uns inspiriert. Sie wird uns fehlen.
😍And here they are: The very first copies of Shane Denson's new book POST-CINEMATIC BODIES! 📚 If in Berlin next week, don't miss the launch at the wonderful Hopscotch Reading Room on Thu, June 29 at 7pm🍷🗓️
More info on the book: https://meson.press/books/post-cinematic-bodies/
"A sophisticated mediation between the phenomenology of perception and theories of digital media."
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
"Philosophically dense, analytically sharp, this book unearths what lies beneath our digital experiences."
- Francesco Casetti, Yale University
"A rigorous theory of mediated corporeality within the metabolic life of post-cinema."
- Rizvana Bradley, University of California, Berkeley
More info on our book series with Graduiertenkolleg "Konfigurationen des Films" / "Configurations of Film"
https://meson.press/series-page/configurations-of-film/
The book "Accidental Archivism. Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past" edited by Vinzenz Hediger & Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is online!
👉 https://archivism.meson.press/
With essays by Ulrich Gregor, Constanze Ruhm, Girish Shambu, Olena Goncharuk & Mariia Glazunova, Didi Cheeka, Filipa César, Ala Younis, Volker Pantenburg and many more!
"A seminal contribution to a materialistic rethinking of visual and tactile, old and new media, brilliantly written and guiding the reader through theoretical frameworks, historical case studies, and illuminating anecdotes, Wanda Strauven’s work also calls for a methodology that includes the inherent playfulness of media, remind us that using and studying media should never lose its ludic aspect."
We couldn't have put it any better! Huge congrats go to our author Wanda Strauven who has been honored with the 2022 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book for TOUCHSCREEN ARCHAEOLOGY: TRACING HISTORIES AND HANDS-ON MEDIA PRACTICES 🥇!
Download the book at https://meson.press/books/touchscreen-archaeology
And on it goes: GUANTÁNAMO FRAMES, Rebecca Boguska's groundbreaking study of Guantánamo Bay as a site of media production and its framings by the US Department of Defense, is now available in print and open access: https://meson.press/books/guantanamo-frames/
For the last twenty years, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp has not just been a military prison and security facility, but also a site of media production. Films, photographs, and documents have continued to emerge from the camp and become the focus of fierce legal and political battles, as well as intense moral anguish. This book looks at how the US Department of Defense has struggled, and often failed, to control the public perception of these media objects through complex, layered framing devices. It traces how small ruptures in the Department’s framings have provided openings for critical interventions from various fields – ranging from journalism and human rights law to the arts. Guantánamo Frames thus lays the groundwork for a critical reappraisal of the entanglement of media, violence, and the security state in a broader sense.
Our farewell to | : RECORDS OF DISASTER: MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE, ed. by Jakob Claus & Petra Löffler is now available on our website: https://meson.press/books/records-of-disaster/
RECORDS OF DISASTER explores how environmental disasters manifest and inscribe themselves in infrastructures. By turning to infrastructures, their logic and functioning, collapse and malfunction, the volume reveals their potential as fragile material witnesses to and of disasters. As climate change is unequally distributed across continuous dynamics and events, time scales and spatial registers, infrastructures can be understood as proxies or seismographs mediating different spatio-temporal layers that make these dynamics tangible. Disaster is made operational by negotiating what is defined as such, and under which geopolitical conditions. What connects melting glaciers and the knowledge from ice cores to the mapping of the ocean floor and the extraction of resources in the deep-sea? How can infrastructures be thought in time and “critical proximity”, and how do they bear witness to colonial pasts and presents? The volume proposes an analytical perspective on infrastructures as multi-layered witnesses to climate change, bringing together scientific and artistic approaches, students and scholars from different disciplines.
RECORDS OF DISASTER is the latest volume in our Future Ecologies Series: https://meson.press/series-page/future-ecologies
As comes to a close, we're excited to announce that the new book by Marie-Luise Angerer has arrived: NONCONSCIOUS: ON THE AFFECTIVE SYNCHING OF MIND AND MACHINE is now online and in bookstores!
Growing numbers of nonhuman companions (smart objects, technical environments, sensor technologies used to augment the human body) are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes. But how is this nonconscious to be understood? Is it something additional, a new zone intervening between the unconscious and consciousness? Or does it fundamentally call into question the distinction between the two?
https://meson.press/books/nonconscious/
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