In current scholarship, Susanne Langer and her theories of art, perception and connectivity are less well known than McLuhan’s. Comparison brings to the fore that both were concerned with the dulling effects of heavy-handed science and technology unregulated by human hand and heart, and both understood the expressive and liberatory possibilities of language as media and metaphor. By reading ‘diffractively’ ‐ finding new connections and honouring patterns over polemics ‐ this article brings Langer back into the scholarly conversation and reinvigorates our understanding of McLuhan. Langer did not consider her thought as principled by feminism. Yet according to recent critical biographer Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, her work was rooted in feminist ontology for espousing principles of relationality and embodiment. My article argues that McLuhan, too, eschewed dichotomies and linearities of traditional thought for the principle of relationality. Extending this claim further, my article also submits that media ecology ‐ with its emphasis on interconnectivities, on feeling and thinking, on non-linearity ‐ has features in common with feminist thinking.
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{"title":"The Trumpian moment","authors":"P. Rose","doi":"10.1386/eme_00088_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00088_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44058774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Expecting parents are often eager to learn the sex of their baby. Gender-reveal parties offer a community or family celebration of that information, often complete with clichéd pink or blue colour coding. Common practices include party games, competitions between Team Boy and Team Girl, and the colourful surprise reveal via confetti, smoke, balloons or food. Not only is the term ‘gender-reveal’ inaccurate (at best sonograms reveal biological sex), the practice privileges stereotypical gender binaries and legitimates pre-birth personhood under the guise of merriment, appropriating the unborn body as a contested discursive site. The gender-reveal party enhances reliance on medical technology and consumerism, retrieves traditional superstitions about pregnancy, obsolesces privacy and reverses into the commodification of both mother and child. Gender-reveals do not necessarily celebrate the pregnancy or the mother. The gender-reveal party functions to reinforce traditional cisgender binaries and constructs gendered expectations for the child even before birth.
{"title":"Gender reveal parties and the construction of the prenatal gendered environment","authors":"Terri Toles-Patkin","doi":"10.1386/eme_00083_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00083_1","url":null,"abstract":"Expecting parents are often eager to learn the sex of their baby. Gender-reveal parties offer a community or family celebration of that information, often complete with clichéd pink or blue colour coding. Common practices include party games, competitions between Team Boy and\u0000 Team Girl, and the colourful surprise reveal via confetti, smoke, balloons or food. Not only is the term ‘gender-reveal’ inaccurate (at best sonograms reveal biological sex), the practice privileges stereotypical gender binaries and legitimates pre-birth personhood under the guise\u0000 of merriment, appropriating the unborn body as a contested discursive site. The gender-reveal party enhances reliance on medical technology and consumerism, retrieves traditional superstitions about pregnancy, obsolesces privacy and reverses into the commodification of both mother and child.\u0000 Gender-reveals do not necessarily celebrate the pregnancy or the mother. The gender-reveal party functions to reinforce traditional cisgender binaries and constructs gendered expectations for the child even before birth.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46711954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With these pieces, I’m exploring the rich history of wimmin’s handicraft as a feminist poetic praxis. In today’s saturated, technomediatic world, domesticity and handcraft often get left out of discussions of ‘media ecologies’. What happens when we incorporate the feminist practices of care, fragility, uniqueness, domesticity and craft into an increasingly digitized and mass-produced means of publishing and sharing literary work? Using found objects, Letraset and thread, these ‘offline’ poetic works explore an unmediated intimacy with poetic materials; in the tactility of hand-to-object care and contact, an oft overlooked ethics of intimacy and vulnerable surfaces. With these pieces I am also thinking alongside the work of feminist theorist Sara Ahmed who thinks of feminism as ‘a fragile archive, a body assembled from shattering, from splattering, an archive whose fragility gives us responsibility: to take care’. Against the masculinist impulse for permanence and enduring legacy in poetics, these pieces make space for radical openness: working with transient and precarious materials and media not only quells the ego, but allows for a greater responsiveness to and engagement with the world and the conditions that shape it.
{"title":"‘Dream’, ‘Spellbound’ and ‘Skin’","authors":"Kate Siklosi","doi":"10.1386/eme_00087_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00087_1","url":null,"abstract":"With these pieces, I’m exploring the rich history of wimmin’s handicraft as a feminist poetic praxis. In today’s saturated, technomediatic world, domesticity and handcraft often get left out of discussions of ‘media ecologies’. What happens when we incorporate\u0000 the feminist practices of care, fragility, uniqueness, domesticity and craft into an increasingly digitized and mass-produced means of publishing and sharing literary work? Using found objects, Letraset and thread, these ‘offline’ poetic works explore an unmediated intimacy with\u0000 poetic materials; in the tactility of hand-to-object care and contact, an oft overlooked ethics of intimacy and vulnerable surfaces. With these pieces I am also thinking alongside the work of feminist theorist Sara Ahmed who thinks of feminism as ‘a fragile archive, a body assembled\u0000 from shattering, from splattering, an archive whose fragility gives us responsibility: to take care’. Against the masculinist impulse for permanence and enduring legacy in poetics, these pieces make space for radical openness: working with transient and precarious materials and media\u0000 not only quells the ego, but allows for a greater responsiveness to and engagement with the world and the conditions that shape it.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44000593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The making of a counterenvironment: The arts and play as counterbalance in the education of children","authors":"R. Albrecht","doi":"10.1386/EME_00077_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EME_00077_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":"20 1","pages":"101-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41504030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article makes the case for reading the German philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk as a media ecologist. Tracing the media ecological implications of what is perhaps his most significant work, the three-volume Spheres project, it argues that Sloterdijk’s spatial analysis of human habitats, what he terms spherology, can be interpreted as offering a promising, distinctive approach to the study of media as environments. By redescribing media as morpho-immunological spheres, or shared spatial interiors, Sloterdijk recasts both human existence and sociocultural change as the result of the interplay or mediation between a relative enclosure into a protective space and a world considered to be outside. This framework, which enables Sloterdijk to chart a grand narrative of globalization, yields a therapeutic methodological strategy by means of which media ecologists may increase the spacious dimensions of the world while strengthening the immune systems of newly designed artificial atmospheres.
{"title":"Sphere ecology: Peter Sloterdijk’s spatial-analytic approach to media environments","authors":"Ethan Stoneman","doi":"10.1386/EME_00072_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EME_00072_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes the case for reading the German philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk as a media ecologist. Tracing the media ecological implications of what is perhaps his most significant work, the three-volume Spheres project, it argues that Sloterdijk’s spatial analysis of human habitats, what he terms spherology, can be interpreted as offering a promising, distinctive approach to the study of media as environments. By redescribing media as morpho-immunological spheres, or shared spatial interiors, Sloterdijk recasts both human existence and sociocultural change as the result of the interplay or mediation between a relative enclosure into a protective space and a world considered to be outside. This framework, which enables Sloterdijk to chart a grand narrative of globalization, yields a therapeutic methodological strategy by means of which media ecologists may increase the spacious dimensions of the world while strengthening the immune systems of newly designed artificial atmospheres.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42390559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fake news or real news about the fake world: The effect of the internet on the traditional media","authors":"Alexander G. Nikolaev","doi":"10.1386/EME_00076_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EME_00076_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43901260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commentary on YouTube has been characterized as a ‘cesspool’. Yet, participants with divergent opinions do post comments to exchange ideas and share information. This study analyses comments posted to a video about YouTube community to investigate the site’s potential for knowledge exploration. The study analyses whether commentary dynamics exhibit those found in prior scholars’ rubric of a community of truth. This model rejects hierarchical forms of learning and advocates sincere information sharing and evaluation. The article argues that certain strands of media ecology scholarship are commensurate with the principles of a community of truth, in which knowledge seekers deploy digital environments to collectively explore a subject of inquiry – in this case the potential for establishing a YouTube community. Such a knowledge subject does not exist as a pre-defined object in the world but rather emerges through digital interaction that channels the subject’s desires about its ideal form through YouTube comments.
{"title":"Conceptualizing communities of truth on YouTube","authors":"Patricia G. Lange","doi":"10.1386/EME_00071_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EME_00071_1","url":null,"abstract":"Commentary on YouTube has been characterized as a ‘cesspool’. Yet, participants with divergent opinions do post comments to exchange ideas and share information. This study analyses comments posted to a video about YouTube community to investigate the site’s potential for knowledge exploration. The study analyses whether commentary dynamics exhibit those found in prior scholars’ rubric of a community of truth. This model rejects hierarchical forms of learning and advocates sincere information sharing and evaluation. The article argues that certain strands of media ecology scholarship are commensurate with the principles of a community of truth, in which knowledge seekers deploy digital environments to collectively explore a subject of inquiry – in this case the potential for establishing a YouTube community. Such a knowledge subject does not exist as a pre-defined object in the world but rather emerges through digital interaction that channels the subject’s desires about its ideal form through YouTube comments.","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":"20 1","pages":"33-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43827078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Zossima Principle as an ideal for media ecology praxis","authors":"Barry Liss","doi":"10.1386/EME_00069_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EME_00069_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":"20 1","pages":"5-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43676934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solace in sound: Glenn Gould’s electronic solitude","authors":"S. Hicks","doi":"10.1386/EME_00070_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EME_00070_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36155,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Media Ecology","volume":"20 1","pages":"19-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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