Contents
- | Kapitel kaufen Contents3
- | Kapitel kaufen Editorial5
- | Kapitel kaufen ARTICLES11
- | Kapitel kaufen Einstein’s Discourse Networks | Jimena Canales11
- | Kapitel kaufen Myths of Labor | Elements of an Economical Zoology | Iris Därmann41
- | Kapitel kaufen ARCHIVE59
- | Kapitel kaufen The Infinite Cinema | A Discussion with Mr. Xu Chi on »The Limit of Cinema« and The Limit of Art: A Second Discussion on the Infinite Cinema | Li Lishui59
- | Kapitel kaufen Li Lishui’s Medium Ontology | A Commentary | Weihong Bao63
- | Kapitel kaufen The City—A Popular Assembly | Ludger Schwarte73
- | Kapitel kaufen The Rules of Attraction | Urban Design, City Films, and Movement Studies | Laura Frahm85
- | Kapitel kaufen Places Proper and Attached or the Agency of the Groundand the Collectives of Domestication | Michael Cuntz101
- | Kapitel kaufen Islands of Stability | Engaging Emergence from Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement | Andrew Pickering121
- | Kapitel kaufen Disassembling the »SAN DOMINICK« | Sovereignty, the Slave Ship, and Partisanship in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno | Ben Robinson135
- | Kapitel kaufen Composite Congress | On Dispersal Patterns in Mathew Brady’s Political Imagery | Ulrich Meurer151
- | Kapitel kaufen Abstracts165
- | Kapitel kaufen Authors169
- | Kapitel kaufen Authors’ addresses ZMK 5 | 1 ( 2014)171
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This paper situates Einstein’s theory of relativity within broader networks of communication.The speed of light, explained Einstein, was an unsurpassable velocity if, and only if, it was considered in terms of »arbitrary« and »voluntary« signals. Light signals in physics belong within a broader set of signs and symbols that include communication and military signals, understood by reference to Helmholtz, Saussure, media philosophies from WWII to ‘68 (Lavelle, Ong, McLuhan) and Derrida. Once light signals in physics are considered in relation to semaphore, print, telegraph, radio, computers and tape recorders, Kittler and Habermas provide us with conflicting ways for understanding science and technology, rationality and consensus.We conclude with a study of »flash and bang« in popular accounts of relativity theory to understand the role of theoretical science in the transmission of information and violence.
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