CONTENTS

Preface

MEDIALITY: CONCEPTS AND MODELS

Differentiating Media

The Medium as Form

Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- and Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse

Original Copy—Secondary Practices

Rumor—More or Less at Home: On Theories of News Value in the 20th Century

“Get the Message Through.” From the Channel of Communication to the Message of the Medium (1945-1960)

DISCOURSES: DISPOSITIVES AND POLITICS

Picture Events: Abu Ghraib

Voice Politics: Establishing the ‘Loud/Speaker’ in the Political Communication of National Socialism

Electricity, Spirit Mediums, and the Media of Spirits

Normativity and Normality

Mass Media Are Effective: On an Aporetic Cunning of Evidence

Extraordinary Stories of the Ordinary Use of Media

The Governmentality of Media: Television as ‘Problem’ and ‘Instrument’

PROCEDURES: AESTHETICS AND MODES

In Between Languages—In Between Cultures: Walter Benjamin’s “Interlinear Version” of Translation as Inframediality

Finding Openings with Opening Credits

The Reflexivity of Voice

A Handout on the Subject of ‘Talking Hands’

What Hands Can Tell Us: From the ‘Speaking’ to the ‘Expressive’ Hand

Semiotics of the Human: Physiognomy of Images and Literary Transcription in Johann Caspar Lavater and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ultraparadoxical: On the Gravity of the Human Experiment in Pavlov and Pynchon

Bastards: Text/Image Hybrids in Pop Writing by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Others

Authors