Media Philosophy: Systems, Information, Capital

This course investigates media and media systems through a close analysis of key texts and authors in this field. It draws on and compares scholarship in the field as developed in the German, French and US theories of technology, information and communication, and mediation. This course understands media as much from an engineering point of view as from a philosophical one. It accounts for the specificity of media as information systems and accounts for the historical significance of cybernetics and computation in the development of feedback oriented and interactive systems that have transformed theories of aesthetics and politics.