{"id":29268,"date":"2014-09-15T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monasandnomos.org\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2014-09-15T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:04:28","slug":"phd-colloquy-winter-201415-an-untimely-nature-of-communication-the-cyphered-reality-of-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meta.copyriot.com\/2014\/09\/phd-colloquy-winter-201415-an-untimely-nature-of-communication-the-cyphered-reality-of-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Colloquy Winter 2014\/15 || An Untimely Nature of Communication: The Cyphered Reality of Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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….and: The Birth of Geometry in Encryption and Deciphering\u2013Towards a Physics of Communication.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Bacteria, fungus, whale, sequoia, we do not\u00a0know any life of which we cannot say that it\u00a0emits information, receives it, stores it and\u00a0processes it. Four universal rules, so unanimous\u00a0that, by them, we are tempted to define life but\u00a0are unable to do so, because of the following\u00a0counterexamples. Crystal, indeed, rock, sea,\u00a0planet, star, galaxy: we know no inert thing of\u00a0which we cannot say that it emits, receives, stores\u00a0and processes information.\u00a0Four universal rules, so uniform that\u00a0we are tempted to define anything in\u00a0the world by them, but are unable to\u00a0do so because of the following\u00a0counterexamples. Individuals, but\u00a0also families, farms, villages, cities,\u00a0nations, we do not know any human,\u00a0alone or in groups, of which we\u00a0cannot say that it emits, receives,\u00a0stores and processes information.\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michel Serres (2014)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Technology presumes given measures to operate steadily, mechanically, reliably and unbiased. In other words, technology can work smoothly when metrics is not problematical. Yet there is a reciprocal germination of our ability and sophistication in measuring: technical devices allow for new practices, and hence are capable of opening up new understandings of matter, time and space, new modes of inhabiting the world, new knowledge, new forms of organization, new insights, new interests, altered cultural values \u2013 new manners of measuring and new devices. This relation between the (collective) subject of a lived praxis (civilization) and the (collective) subject of a functioning operator (technology) constitutes the core of media studies: it is through this relationally within collectivities (rather than individual subjects) that media are distinguished from technical instruments.<\/p>\n

In this PhD colloquy we will read a selection of texts by the classical protagonists of the field: Eric Havelock, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler. Thereby, we will (1) sharpen a particular perspective that foregrounds the role of \u201etechnical channels\u201c and their quasi-physical reality in techniques of algebraic symbolic encryption, and (2) we will pursue, question, discuss and elaborate this perspective in relation to the fact that from today\u2019s point of view, we are dealing not only with McLuhan\u2019s unsettling observation about the non-neutrality of the communication channels, namely that The Medium is the Message<\/em>; a tip more abstract now, e.g. in peer-to-peer filesharing, we have the situation that Each Message Constitutes a Channel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Reading assignments are roughly 60 pages per week.<\/strong>
\nThe colloquy will take place on Tuesday mornings from 9.30 am to 11 am at CAAD ETHZ.
\nMeetings are scheduled from Sept. 30th until the end of February 2015
\n(we will reserve flexibility to coordinate with upcoming events like the Seminarweek etc.)<\/p>\n

First meeting on September 30th 9.30 am at CAAD ETHZ.<\/strong>
\nPlease read the articles headed under \u201eintroduction\u201c for this meeting.<\/p>\n

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LITERATURE
\n(in the order to be followed in our meetings)<\/p>\n

Introduction: Towards a Physics of Communication
\n<\/strong>Michel Serres, \u201eInformation and Thinking\u201c (10 pages)
\nWolfgang Ernst, \u201eExperimenting with Measuring Media\u201c (30 pages)
\nMark Hansen, \u201eSpeculative Phenomenology of Microtemporal Operations\u201c (20 pages)
\nVera B\u00fchlmann, \u201eGeneric Mediality” (10 pages)
\n[all PDFs on the server]<\/p>\n

Image, Form, and the Preservation of the Articulable
\n<\/strong>Eric Havelock, Preface to Plato<\/em> (340 pages)\u00a0[PDF on the server]<\/p>\n

Economy and Politics with Preserved Articulations
\n<\/strong>Harold Innis, Empire and Communication<\/em> (219 pages)
\n[http:\/\/www.gutenberg.ca\/ebooks\/innis-empire\/innis-empire-00-h.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Distinguished Origination of Artifacts in the Cultivation of Mediacy
\n<\/strong>Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media<\/em> (300 pages) [PDF on the server]<\/p>\n

Media Archaeology in the Electromagnetic Materiality of Imagination
\n<\/strong>Friedrich Kittler, Film Grammophone Typewriter<\/em> (260 pages)\u00a0[PDF on the server]<\/p>\n

Rooting Inside of Time: An Impersonal and A-subjective\u00a0Principle of Reason
\n<\/strong>Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive<\/em> (260 pages) [PDF on the server]<\/p>\n

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