Hello everyone,
Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of time-criticality, a concept developed by media theorist Wolfgang Ernst in the last couple of decades.
We’ll be reading one of his translated works:
From the blurb:
Chronopoetics is not about media history, but offers a close reading of the signal realities of our times. Written by leading media theorist Wolfgang Ernst, this inspiring and provocative book cuts across so-called old and new media as well as between technical details and contemporary theory. Media philosophy unfolds as a microcosmos of temporalities. — Jussi Parikka, Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics, University of Southampton
Wolfgang Ernst’s Chronopoetics is a voice from the white-hot core of the machine universe. He follows the things themselves with a relentlessness unmatched by any media theorist since Harold Innis. In focusing on signals that shuttle through our technical and natural systems at speeds too fast and intervals too small to be perceived by a human subject, Ernst might, at first, seem provocatively inhumane. But in the end his revelation of the poetics of time-critical processes offers its own stark enlightenment — John Durham Peters, A. Craig Baird Professor, The University of Iowa
We’ll be meeting on Zoom on Friday June 11th, at 1 p.m. (Eastern) / 6 p.m. (London).
As usual, we’ll do some work to divvy up the larger text in to shorter chunks that we report back on during the meeting. This will be done over email; there is no formal mailing list for the group (yet!).
If you would like to be included in the next meeting or upcoming meetings, please get in touch with either myself (belle2@tcd.ie) or Ezra (ezra@redthunderaudio.com) to be kept in the loop. We will also send out the Zoom link for this meeting by email, closer to the time. All are welcome!