Classics and media theory
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Classics and media theory
（Classical presences）
Oxford University Press, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[313]-356) and index
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Description
Introducing a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory, this volume addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter and how they might be developed further. It aims not only to promote awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory but also to encourage more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. By bringing together an international team of scholars with interdisciplinary
expertise in areas ranging from classical literature and classical reception studies to art history, media theory and media history, film studies, philosophy, and cultural studies, the volume as a whole engages with numerous aspects of 'classical' Greece and Rome revolving around issues of
philosophy, cultural history, literature, aesthetics, and epistemology. Each chapter provides its own definition of what constitutes mediality and how it operates, constructs different genealogies of the concept of the medium, and engages with emergent fields within media studies that range from cultural techniques to media archaeology, diagrammatology, and intermediality. By seeking to foreground the persistency of Greco-Roman paradigms across the different strands of media theory the volume
persuasively calls for a closer consideration of the conceptual underpinnings of the cultural practices around the transformation of ancient Greece and Rome into 'classics.'
Table of Contents
Frontmatter
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
1: Pantelis Michelakis: Introduction: Classical Antiquity, Media Histories, Media Theories
2: Till A. Heilmann: Friedrich Kittler's Alphabetic Realism
3: Verity Platt: The Seal of Polycrates: A Discourse on Discourse Channel Conditions
4: Duncan F. Kennedy: Metaphysics and the Mathematical Diagram: Geometry between History and Philosophy
5: Frank Haase: On the Beginnings of Media Theory in Hesiod and Plato
6: Emmanuel Alloa: Metaxy: Aristotle on Mediacy
7: Karin Harrasser: The Fable of Arachne: Underweavings of Tactile Mediality
8: Ulrich Meurer: The Shards of Zadar: A (Meta-)Archaeology of Cinema
9: Patrick R. Crowley: Parrhasius' Curtain, or a Media Archaeology of a Metapainting
10: Genevieve Liveley: White Noise: Transmitting and Receiving Ancient Elegy
11: Adam Lecznar: Parmenides at his Typewriter: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Media of Philosophy
12: Maria Oikonomou: Manteia, Mediality, Migration
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
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