Review of Conditions of Mediation in Communication

Luciana Radut-Gaghi from Université de Cergy-Pontoise has written a thoughtful review of Conditions of Mediation in the French-language Canadian journal Communication.

The urban as emergent key concept for media theory

A new roundtable on ‘The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory’ has been published online in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, edited by Scott Rodgers (co-editor of Conditions of Mediation). This roundtable brings together contributions from five scholars (Zlatan Krajina, André Jansson, Myria Georgiou, Giorgia Aiello and Scott Rodgers), all of whom explore the ways in…

New film by Catalin Brylla: Zanzibar Soccer Dreams

Catalin Brylla – a chapter author in Conditions of Mediation – has co-directed a new feature documentary film with Florence Ayisi (University of South Wales). Zanzibar Soccer Dreams continues where Ayisi’s 2007 documentary Zanzibar Soccer Queens left off, exploring the emergence of women’s football across Zanzibar. It tells the story of how the country’s first…

New book by Graham Harman: Dante’s Broken Hammer

Conditions of Mediation contributor Graham Harman has a new book out entitled Dante’s Broken Hammer. Here, Harman again takes on a more unusual philosophy subject, the work of Italian poet Dante Alighieri, transforming it into an it into a unique provocation for continental philosophy, still largely toiling in the shadows of Immanuel Kant. Harman’s contribution…

Video now available: Conditions of Mediation keynote dialogues

Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers At long last, we are pleased to provide an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, an ICA preconference which took place in London on 17 June 2013. The first symposium…

Open call for chapter proposals

In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation brought together scholars from a wide range of perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in…

Thank you… and looking forward

With the sun well and truly set on a hectic June conference season, we would like to sincerely thank all those who presented and participated in the Conditions of Mediation ICA preconference. Though it was a particularly intense day in ideas as well as format, we made the utmost of that intensity. The event, as…

#ConMed

With Conditions of Mediation just days away, we have just about finalised our preparations. We expect to have a great turnout of around 70 delegates, and hope this will make for a truly stimulating exchange of ideas and perspectives on what it might mean to think through the phenomenological dimensions of media, technology and communication.…

After ConMed: urban media tour of West End London

We’re really excited about the forthcoming Conditions of Mediation preconference on 17 June 2013. Later this week, we’ll be in touch with all of our keynotes, presenters and other attendees with some final details. There will be some posts here also, outlining further bits and bobs. But in the meantime, for those of you who…

Being in the World: a screening and discussion

Next week, on Friday 7 June 2013 Birkbeck’s Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice will host a screening and discussion of Being in the World (Tao Ruspoli | USA | 2010 | 81’). Being in the World explores the intimate connections between skilful mastery and the ways in which humans beings find themselves in…