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meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media. Our publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities of today. Dedicated to #openaccess since 2015.
So glad to see the book "Vector Media", just co-published with @uminnpress.bsky.social, getting the attention it deserves! 👇Shout out to the authors @zentralwerkstatt.org Fabian Offert + Leo Impett for their excellent work!!!! ✊ + thx @mckenziewark.bsky.social + Lev Manovich for your interest.
#Brandneu: Gestern ist das Internationale Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie & Medienästhetik „Customizing: Konfigurationen medialer Anpassung“ bei @mesonpress.bsky.social erschienen. Mit spannenden Beiträgen u. a. von Mona Leinung, Jakob Schnetz & @katschwerzmann.bsky.social! 📬 shorturl.at/kgiDE
with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
![Contents
Introduction: The New Real 9
Benedikt Merkle and Bernhard Siegert
R E C K O N I N G W I T H W I N D A N D W E A T H E R
[ 1 ] Times of the Weather: Seasons of the Real Angelika Seppi
33
[ 2 ] Wind: An Environmental Data Stack 53
Jussi Parikka
[ 3 ] Modeling the Earth: Operative Images, Machine Learning,
and Weather Prediction 71
Eva-Maria Gillich
E N V I R O N I N G M E D I A
[ 4 ] Atmospheric Signals, Tubed 91
Christoph Rosol
[ 5 ] Reckoning with the Ocean: The Disconnect Between the
Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability 111
Adam Wickberg and Susanna Lidström
[ 6 ] Contract Time: Or How to do Things with Units Anna Echterhölter
127
T H E S Y M B O L I C A N D T H E R E A L
[ 7 ] Forgetful Functor: Or How to Write the Real Christina Vagt
147
[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreifgwe6r2gi5z4kwcqkiia7ryhatr2jbaqoteuk7htedpneyvkg7ui)
![[ 9 ] The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of
Carbo-Silico Pipelines? 183
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
[ 10 ] Turing Incompleteness: Reckoning with Loss in Digital
Computation 203
Moritz Hiller
L I F E - W O R L D S O F C O M P U T A T I O N
[ 11 ] Dead Time and Lifeworld: The Present Tense of Ubicomp Bernhard Siegert
217
[ 12 ] Reckoning with Intimacy: A Recent History of Intimate
Computing 233
Benedikt Merkle
[ 13 ] Interaction with the Vampire 251
John S. Seberger
C O D A
[ 14 ] What Computers Want 269
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Authors 283](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreic6u27ugxivvy2iu2pxdwxbolawzbh53xumibvtph3uuochkzs3au)
meson press@mesonpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻 Supported by The NOMIS Foundation
Out now ``/ Digitale Gewalt. Politisierungen affektiver Öffentlichkeiten meson.press/books/digita... @mesonpress.bsky.social #MISOGYNIE #DIGITALERFASCHISMUS #TECHNOFASCHISMUS #DIGITALERKOLONIALISMUS #GENDERMEDIASTUDIES #INTERSEKTIONALITÄT
📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻 Supported by The NOMIS Foundation
Out today in OA from meson press in the "Configurations of film" book series: Distributed Productivities Digital Transcreation and the New World Order of Cultural Production Ed. Vinzenz Hediger, Matthias Krings, Bertram Lang and Cornelia Storz What does pizza have in common with Afro Beats?
Der SFB 1567 »Virtuelle Lebenswelten« sucht mehrere wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (m/w/d) für interdisziplinäre Teilprojekte. Wir forschen zu Virtualität in Alltag, Kultur und Gesellschaft. Mehr Infos: www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/st...
Stellenausschreibungen: Elf Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (m/w/d) – Interdisziplinäre Forschung zu Virtualität – mehrere Stellen in Teilprojekten des SFB 1567 zu besetzen
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SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten@sfb1567.bsky.social · 3mo agoIm #SFB1567 sind in mehreren Teilprojekten Stellen für wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (m/w/d) ausgeschrieben. Weitere Informationen zu Profilen, Aufgaben und Bewerbung bietet die Jobbörse der Universität. Mehr Infos: www.virtuelle-lebens...
Auf der Zielgeraden. Druckfahnen für "Digitale Gewalt. Politisierungen affektiver Öffentlichkeiten" @mesonpress.bsky.social #DigitaleGewalt
Im #SFB1567 sind in mehreren Teilprojekten Stellen für wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (m/w/d) ausgeschrieben. Weitere Informationen zu Profilen, Aufgaben und Bewerbung bietet die Jobbörse der Universität. Mehr Infos: www.virtuelle-lebens...
📚 Now also available in print: the STICKY FILMS anthology from our Configurations of Film series, edited by Kerim Doğruel, Fadekemi Olawoye, and Clara Podlesnigg. The #oa edition can be downloaded here: doi.org/10.14619/2348 @goetheuni.bsky.social @dfg.de #openaccess #oabooks
📚 Heute ist Welttag des Buches und des Urheberrechts! Wir haben ein paar hilfreiche Ressourcen für euch zum Thema Open-Access-Bücher zusammengestellt: 🔎 open-access.network/informieren/... 🎥 doi.org/10.5446/49535 📝 open-access.network/blog/eine-po... #OpenAccess #OpenScience #weltbuchtag #oabooks
"By offering ... an …overview of the forms of knowledge tacitly influenced by cinematic techniques and apparatuses, the book makes a strong point to further investigate media immanence". Simone Dotto reviews "Tacit Cinematic Knowledge", a @mesonpress.bsky.social book necsus-ejms.org/tacit-cinema...
Tacit Cinematic Knowledge | NECSUS
In the fall of 2008 Malte Hagener aptly summed up decades of Film (and Media) studies tradition, arguing that its agenda had progressively shifted from an
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Fresh from the printer: New copies of #Computing Cultures: Knowledges and Practices (1940–1990), edited by Arianna Borrelli and Helena Durnová. Pick up a copy at your local bookstore or download it for free from our website: doi.org/10.14619/2737 #oa #openaccess #oabooks #openaccessbooks
📚 Frisch eingetroffen: Neue Exemplare des Bandes "Banales #Publizieren: Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings" von Elisa Linseisen und Dorothea Walzer (Hg.). Gibt's im Buchhandel oder hier im #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.14619/2300 #oa #books #publishing #pod #Bücher #Plattformen
Wer glaubt, dass Bibliotheken künftig keine Bücher mehr sammeln sollten, weil ja vermeintlich die Zukunft im Digitalen liegt, der hat die Zukunft in Wahrheit schon lange aufgegeben
Hagen Schölzel@hagenschoelzel.de · 5mo ago#Weimer täglich mit neuen Negativnachrichten, heute Stopp des Erweiterungsbaus der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social in #Leipzig. "Zur Begründung erklärte der Staatsminister, die Sammlung körperlicher Medienwerke bis weit in die Zukunft hinein sei nicht mehr zeitgemäß." via @leipzigerzeitung.bsky.social
📻 #Podcast recommendation: Zoë Sofoulis and Ingrid Richardson were guests on Mél Hogan's "The Data Fix," where they discussed their co-edited vol "Containment: Technologies of Holding, Filtering, Leaking." Have a listen: shows.acast.com/the-data-fix... Download the book here: doi.org/10.14619/2188
Containment, with Zoë Sofoulis (Zoe Sofia) and Ingrid Richardson | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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“For anyone interested in feminist approaches to media and media archeology, I think that her research in this new book is really wonderful and brings new sort of feminist insights into how we can consider broader scope of media.” – Ana Witonsky on Children Reinventing Cinema doi.org/10.14619/0887
Children Reinventing Cinema. Snapshots from the Early 21st Century › meson press
Expanding on a media-archaeological approach to film history, this book maps children’s playful and imaginative knowledge of contemporary media culture and explores their filmmaking practices that pus...
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wanda strauven@wandastrauven.bsky.social · 10mo agowe got a review of our book launch!
Book Presentation: Andreas Broeckmann. The Making of Les Immatériaux 6. Oktober, 19:30 Andreas Broeckmann in conversation with Beatrice von Bismarck pro-qm.de/event/andrea...
first copies delivered in NYC!!! thanks to @mesonpress.bsky.social book launch coming up soon, RSVP at: www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2025-ev...
pro-qm.de/event/andrea... 6. Oktober 2025, 19:30 Andreas Broeckmann. The Making of Les Immatériaux Book presentation: Andreas Broeckmann in conversation with Beatrice von Bismarck
Andreas Broeckmann. The Making of Les Immatériaux | Pro qm
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New Yorkers, get your tickets for this FREE event celebrating my new book! October 9, at 7pm, at Lenfest Center for the Arts. Details of the screening will be announced soon. www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2025-ev...
‘Children Reinventing Cinema’ — Lenfest Center for the Arts
Please join us for an evening with short films made by kids from the past and the present in celebration of Children Reinventing Cinema, new book by Adjunct Professor Wanda Strauven and Alexandra ...
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Berlin people! On Oct 6, our author Andreas Broeckmann will be talking to Beatrice von Bismarck about his new book “The Making of Les Immatériaux.” Come to @proqm.bsky.social at 7:30 pm and get yourself a hardcover copy at a special price! pro-qm.de/event/andrea... #Lyotard #Chaput #CentrePompidou
Vinzenz Hediger@vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · last yr.The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Thanks to @mesonpress.bsky.social and our editors Philipp Keidl and @jazuena.bsky.social for putting this book together and making it accessible for all on PDF! Here's the table of contents showing all the amazing work contained within.
Platforms and the Moving Image book now out! Edited by Philipp Keidl and Jana Zündel, featuring the work of many amazing scholars, and mostly junior scholars, including work on Netflix, IMDb, KaraGarga, smart homes, Disney+, ALTBalaji, and much more - meson.press/books/platfo...
Platforms and the Moving Image › meson press
Platforms and the Moving Image offers a multifaceted look at how digital platforms shape and are shaped by economic, cultural, and political forces. The collection examines the effects of gaming, soci...
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our little book is officially launched, freely downloadable in glorious open access at meson press: meson.press/books/childr...
📣 The first printed copies of “Children Reinveinting Cinema: Snapshots from the Early 21st Century” (CoF series) by Alexandra Schneider & @wandastrauven.bsky.social have arrived and will be in bookstores soon! The #openaccess edition is already available from our website: meson.press/books/childr...
Out now in open access from @mesonpress.bsky.social in the Cofigurations of Film book series (@dfg.de GRK 2279 "Konfigurationen des Films" @goetheuni.bsky.social): Alexandra Schneider, Wanda Strauven Children Reinventing Cinema Snapshots from the Early 21st Century meson.press/books/childr...
Children Reinventing Cinema. Snapshots from the Early 21st Century › meson press
Expanding on a media-archaeological approach to film history, this book maps children’s playful and imaginative knowledge of contemporary media culture and explores their filmmaking practices that pus...
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