{"product_id":"media-ecologies-materialist-energies-in-art-and-technoculture-leonardo-9780262562263","title":"Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (Leonardo)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \"dirty materialist\" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio  photography  the Internet  media art  cultural evolution  and surveillance. In Media Ecologies  Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systemsunderstood here as processes  or elements in a composition as much as \"things\"have become informational as much as physical  but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materialityhow it can be sensed  made use of  and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate  and  as he writes  \"to produce patterns  dangers  and potentials.\" Fuller draws on texts by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze as well as writings by Friedrich Nietzsche  Marshall McLuhan  Donna Haraway  Friedrich Kittler  and others  to define and extend the idea of \"media ecology.\" Arguing that the only way to find out about what happens when media systems interact is to carry out such interactions  Fuller traces a series of media ecologies\"taking every path in a labyrinth simultaneously \" as he describes one chapter. He looks at contemporary London-based pirate radio and its interweaving of high- and low-tech media systems; the \"medial will to power\" illustrated by \"the camera that ate itself\"; how  as seen in a range of compelling interpretations of new media works  the capacities and behaviors of media objects are affected when they are in \"abnormal\" relationships with other objects; and each step in a sequence of Web pages  Cctvworld wide watch  that encourages viewers to report crimes seen via webcams. Contributing to debates around standardization  cultural evolution  cybernetic culture  and surveillance  and inventing a politically challenging aesthetic that links them  Media Ecologies  with its various narrative speeds  scales  frames of references  and voices  does not offer the academically traditional unifying framework; rather  Fuller says  it proposes to capture \"an explosion of activity and ideas to which it hopes to add an echo.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647843459125,"sku":"ByrdShop_026256226X","price":20.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262562263.jpg?v=1781697798","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/media-ecologies-materialist-energies-in-art-and-technoculture-leonardo-9780262562263","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}