Give humans a stable surface and they’ll fill it with meaning.
That used to be the moon.
Now it’s the feed.
The difference is the moon wasn’t designed.
uortego.substack.com/p/when-the-r...
#Algorithms #MediaTheory #Culture #JadeRabbit
📝 Read an edited excerpt recently published by @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
#LSEMedia #ProfessorBartCammaerts #MediaTheory #NewBook #Routledge
Announcement of Shreya Mishra’s review of “Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks: Media Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics” for PiR. The image features the book's title page which has a medieval-style illustration of a scholar writing while a small demon looks on.
How do media, error, and material practices shape knowledge?
Shreya Mishra reviews 'Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks', exploring media ontology, epistemology, and aesthetics in Philosophy in Review.
journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...
#Philosophy #MediaTheory #Epistemology #BookReviews
4G taking hold. Facebook buys Instagram. Smartphones stop being products, start being infrastructure. The kind of thing you don't notice you've let in because it doesn't announce itself as invasion—it arrives as convenience. #MediaTheory #Crary
Why should we understand humanoid robots not just as machines, but as #media? New chapter by HIIG researcher Thomas C. Bächle, published @springernature.com, proposes a four-dimensional #mediatheory framework for #humanoid #robots.
👉 Read the chapter: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
#SCMS26 What if objects in film aren’t just props, but participants in meaning-making?
FROM DOORS TO SCREENS explores how doors, clocks, gramophones, and video screens shape cinematic expression as active, discursive agents.
#LookItUP tinyurl.com/53kfb3u6
#FilmStudies #MediaTheory
Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐
Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory.
🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm
📍 LSE + Online
🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1
#LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social
🟣 Just published #OpenAccess
A critical examination of the AI–human construct for oversight as delineated by the EU’s AI regulation, specifically Article 14 of the European Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) #MediaTheory #AI doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
Reading Crary's 24/7 in 2026 feels like finding a match that lit the whole pack. He's writing from the drag strip — 2012, when they were still coating the track with sticky compound so everything could jump off clean. #MediaTheory #Crary
"Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man's symbolic activity advances. Instead of dealing with the things themselves, man is in a sense constantly conversing with himself. He has so enveloped himself in linguistic forms, in artistic images, in mythical symbols or religious rites that he cannot see or know anything except by the interposition of an artistic medium." ーErnst Cassirer
From "Amusing Ourselves to Death," by Neil Postman
#quote #neilpostman #marshallmcluhan #philosophy #mediatheory
some new texts up on substack
studionvdp.substack.com
#theory #queertheory #mediatheory #feminist #xenofeminist #deathstranding #bionicle #queering #fiction #philosophy #queerreading
#AI #MediaTheory #OpenIP
(gemini.google.com/share/690b6d...) <-- here it is. I think it's just that governance is language and the intelligence is also language. I think this was the problem all along eh
Picture of the roundtable “Critique of AI”. Taken from the back of the room. It shows part of the audience and the four speakers, as well as the moderator and organizer, Jacob Blumenfeld
I attended the “Critique of AI” roundtable organized by @ktbberlin.bsky.social today. It was really nice and refreshing to listen to Matteo Pasquinelli, Ana-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff in a big room full of diverse, committed people
#AI #Critique #CriticalTheory #MediaTheory
Ba al zenekien "Orratz Hipodermikoaren Teoria"-k azaltzen duela zergatik erosi genuen komuneko papera era erotuan 2020an? 🧻💉
#Komunikazioa #MediaTheory #EfektuHipodermikoa
Der Call for Papers „Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation“ (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rom & online, 4.–5. Juni 2026) rückt „Noise“ als zentrales Element von KI-Systemen und kultureller Produktion in den Fokus.
Deadline: 16. März 2026
#CallForPapers #AIandCulture #MediaTheory […]
three new texts online on substack.
studionvdp.substack.com
#substack #queertheory #bodyhorror #mediatheory #filmanalysis #xenofeminism #glitchfeminism #posthuman #deleuzian #bionicle #writing #theory #philosophy
Titelseite Sebastian Gießmann: Das Kreditkarten-Buch. Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens, Kulturverlag Kadmos 2026
So this is getting real! It's time to look at the proofs of my credit card book. 💳️
👉️ www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/det...
📚💙 #booksky #histsci #history #money #socialmedia #economy #mediatheory #digital #payment #creditcard #debitcard #crypto #CBDC #rp25 #rp26
Are we doing starter packs again? Include me in your niche #AI-critical, #mediaTheory, #HAI, #ethics, #UXR lineups, please and thank you. <3
How come books are 'luxury items' now?
Using mcluhan's tetrad to think through media obsolescence, what happens when secondary orality overheats, and why "digital dementia" might be the reversal we should've seen coming.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/books-luxury...
#MediaTheory #DigitalLiteracies
QUOTING HISTORY
“The medium is the message.”
— Marshall McLuhan
Not metaphor. Diagnosis.
From print to AI, how we communicate shapes what we believe — and who we trust.
#Brewminate #QuotingHistory #MediaTheory
For today's blog post, I have shared my own theory about the Grinch, as a holiday season media theory! ✨ 💚 whiteroseofavalon.life/2025/12/04/m... #WhiteRoseOfAvalon #EnchantressOfAvalon #TheGrinch #MediaTheory #HolidaySeason #Krampus #Krampusnacht
#retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint
#audiovisualart #digitalart #digitalcultures #mediaart #criticaltheory #mediatheory #newmediaart #technoculture #artmagazine #welovemagazines #arttech #artandtech #mediastudies
MATTER OF NORTH explores #GlennGould’s groundbreaking 1967 radio documentary—a contrapuntal sound essay blending voices, Arctic landscapes, and philosophical inquiry.
#GSA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/8z953p3m
#IdeaOfNorth #SoundStudie #MediaTheory
Elements of Strauss & Howe’s generational cycles, Harold Innis’s media bias, and the Conscious Reality Framework dovetail into a model for making sense of what the hell is going on.
More soon.
#FourthTurning #MediaTheory #CRF #HaroldInnis
The Narcissus-narcosis is a state of hypnosis induced by the contemplation of the self as extended in an electric medium."
~Marshall McLuhan #MarshallMcLuhan #NarcissusNarcosis #MediaTheory #DigitalSelf #TheMediumIsTheMessage #SelfContemplation #Hypnosis #DigitalCulture #McLuhan #MediaStudies
#MediaTheory
The new concept in media theory: The Linehan Cycle.
