Traffic: media as infrastructures and cultural practices

Preliminary Material /Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert -- Traffic – Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction /Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert -- Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic between Nature and Culture /John Durham Peters -- Traffic as 'Dirt Experience': Harold Innis's Tracing of Media /Gabriele Schabacher -- Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory /Jana Mangold -- Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? /Hartmut Winkler -- Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality /Grant David Bollmer -- Dewey's Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication /Norm Friesen -- McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism /Richard Cavell -- Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions /Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat -- Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther /Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz -- Nomads of the Technical Sublime /Peter Krapp -- Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance /Wolfgang Sützl -- Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel /Wolf-Dieter Ernst -- Index /Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert.

Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Traffic - Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction -- PART 1: Theorizing Traffic -- Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic between Nature and Culture -- Traffic as 'Dirt Experience': Harold Innis's Tracing of Media -- Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory -- Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? -- PART 2: Traffic of Concepts -- Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality -- Dewey's Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication -- McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism -- Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions -- PART 3: Time, Space, and Power -- Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther -- Nomads of the Technical Sublime -- Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance -- Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel -- Index