Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and technoculture

Matthew Fuller

The MIT Press, ISBN 026206247X The interaction between different media system involves their interpretation as abstract processes, and in fact these are considered by Matthew Fuller (author of Behind the Blip ) in this dense Treaty. The 'machinic phylum' of Deleuze and Guattari is expanded on its own roots, composing a theoretical mosaic of media components, which, as it passes become possible routes on which trigger many possible compounds dynamic. Connecting continually abstract philosophical concepts (Foucault, Kittler, Flusser …) with the materiality of the media (the transmission equipment and performance measures used by pirate radio to the street lights, cameras and network packets, seen as a minimal entities own right), it outlines a universe of meanings that rewrite relations and social views. Examples are the very detailed analysis of the works 'A Camera Recording Its Own Condition' by John Hilliard or 'Cctv – world wide watch' Heath Bunting / irrational.org, where new facets to overlook every paragraph, illuminating new aspects of work only apparently unique. Between the roles of new media theorist is certainly to disassemble and reassemble the mechanisms unpublished styles, which reflect less obvious meanings, but even more important. In this challenging this analysis makes a continuous zoom between macro-and micro-levels of analysis sectioning process, technical and social, whose network of parts integrates multiple planes in a charming composition of scenarios.