Amanda Lagerkvist

Gebundenes Buch

Existential Media

A Media Theory of the Limit Situation

Beschreibung

Existential Media revisits existential philosophy through a reappreciation of Karl Jaspers' philosophy, and of his concept of the limit situation: those ultimate moments in life-of loss, crisis and guilt-which we are called upon to seize. Introducing the field of existential media studies in conversation with disability studies, the new materialism and the environmental humanities, the book offers a media theory of the limit situation which brings limits, in all their shapes and forms, onto the radar when we interrogate media.

Autor

Amanda Lagerkvist is Professor of Media and Communication Studies in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University. She is principal investigator of the Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence. As Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2014-2018) she founded the field of existential media studies. She heads the project: "BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds" funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, in which her group studies the lived experiences of biometric AI, for example voice and face recognition technologies. She is the editor of Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780190925567
• ISBN-10: 0190925566
• Artikelnr.: 64140395