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KNUT EBELING

There Is No Now: An Archaeology of Contemporaneity

Drawing together discourses on contemporaneity and new materialisms, the essay examines a material conception of time, making it possible to develop a critique of the philosophical discourse on presence.

WOLFGANG ERNST

The Delayed Present: Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities and Techno-traumatic Irritations of “the Contemporary”

In the media theater of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of “the present” is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves, making it an impossible effort to let the temporal articulate itself.

WOLFGANG ERNST

The Delayed Present
Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities and Techno-Traumatic Irritations of “the Contemporary”

Geoff Cox & Jacob Lund (Eds.)

In the media theatre of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of “the present” is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves.

Eternal Erasure—On Fashion Matters

Pieter Van Bogaert, Martine Zoeteman & Christophe Coppens (Eds.)

It’s easy to rant about the fashion industry.