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FCJ-116 Media Ecologies and Imaginary Media: Transversal Expansions, Contractions, and Foldings

Jussi Parikka Anglia Ruskin University [Abstract] Just as capacities of thought, of being, are made in lived bodies, in complex and delicately conjoined tissues and processes, and just as powers are inherent in all matter, materialism also requires that the capacities of activity, thought, sensation, and affect possible to each composition whether organic or not…

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FCJ-116 Media Ecologies and Imaginary Media: Transversal Expansions, Contractions, and Foldings

Jussi Parikka Anglia Ruskin University [Abstract] Just as capacities of thought, of being, are made in lived bodies, in complex and delicately conjoined tissues and processes, and just as powers are inherent in all matter, materialism also requires that the capacities of activity, thought, sensation, and affect possible to each composition whether organic or not…

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FCJ-116 Media Ecologies and Imaginary Media: Transversal Expansions, Contractions, and Foldings

Jussi Parikka Anglia Ruskin University [Abstract] Just as capacities of thought, of being, are made in lived bodies, in complex and delicately conjoined tissues and processes, and just as powers are inherent in all matter, materialism also requires that the capacities of activity, thought, sensation, and affect possible to each composition whether organic or not…

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FCJ-115 Autocreativity and Organisational Aesthetics in Art Platforms

Olga Goriunova London Metropolitan University [Abstract] Introduction Cultural production on the Internet has developed numerous dynamics and consistencies that drive considerations of creativity, organisation and the inter-relations of media. This article presents and briefly discusses the concept of an art platform, a particularly resonant form of such cultural production. The article enquires into the ways…

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FCJ-114 Towards an Archaeology of Media Ecologies: ‘Media Ecology’, Political Subjectivation and Free Radios

Michael Goddard University Of Salford. [Abstract] Introduction While Matthew Fuller’s book entitled Media Ecologies has had a considerable impact on research into new media, digital art, alternative media and other spheres, it still remains relatively little-known in mainstream media studies and contains great potential for further development in relation to many fields of media research….

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Issue 17 – Unnatural Ecologies

This issue is an exercise in media ecology that is paradoxically unnatural. Instead of assuming a natural connection to the established tradition of Media Ecology in the Toronto-school fashion of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and the work of scholars involved in the Media Ecology Association (https://www.media-ecology.org/media_ecology/), our issue stems from another direction; its theoretical orientation…

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