Medium Cool

South Atlantic Quarterly 101:3 (2002)

With Andrew McNamara, I co-edited a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, devoted to contemporary cultural theory and critical media studies.

Contents:

• McNamara, Andrew; Krapp, Peter: Introduction
• Weber, Samuel M.: War, Terrorism, and Spectacle: On Towers and Caves
• Broadfoot, Keith: Abstraction and Aura
• McNamara, Andrew: Apprehension? Performativity and Medium-Specificity in Modern Art
• Butler, Rex: "Bright Shadows": Art, Aboriginality, and Aura
• Liu, Catherine: Getting to the Photo Finish: Photography, Autobiography, Modernity
• Hawker, Rosemary: The Idiom in Photography As the Truth in Painting
• Ross, Toni: Art in the "Post-Medium" Era: Aesthetics and Conceptualism in the Art of Jeff Wall
• Trahair, Lisa: The Ghost in the Machine: The Comedy of Technology in the Cinema of Buster Keaton
• Krapp, Peter: Unforgiven - Fausse Reconnaissance
• Stanitzek, Georg: Fama/Chain of Muses: Two Classical Problems of Literary Studies with "the Media"
• Ernst, Wolfgang: Between Real Time and Memory on Demand: Reflections on/of Television
• Crogan, Patrick: Blade Runners: Speculations on Narrative and Interactivity
• Tholen, Georg Christoph: Media Metaphorology: Irritations in the Epistemic Field of Media Studies
• Macarthur, John: The Image As an Architectural Material
• Wortham, Simon; Hall, Gary: Responding: A Discussion with Samuel Weber

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