This essay makes a case for media-epistemic pluralism, by staging an encounter between Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and Ralph Ellison’s autobiographical story ‘Living with Music’. It argues that a medium does not function autonomously, but always forms a complex constellation with other media. This constellation takes shapes through the interventions of the conceptual persona of the engineer.
Tag Archives: noise
oh baby, i like it raw
A presentation that I gave on the 27th of October 2008 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for the Music and Sound Studies Initiative lecture series organized by Sumanth Gopinath.
noise is the new meaning
A presentation that I gave on the 17th of November 2008 at the English Department of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for the eNow! lecture series organized by Terri Sutton.
about medial operations
How do media – old and new – shape and transform knowledge? The research-in-progress website, Medial Operations, focuses on the complex transitions between noise, non-sense, information, and knowledge.