Understanding the material, infrastructural dimension of contemporary media culture requires an engagement with a larger history of technology, one filled with interdisciplinary articulations that bring together cultural studies, art history, and architecture with the emerging frameworks of ‘media theory’ and ‘media philosophy’. This seminar examines Bernhard Siegert’s theorization of ‘cultural techniques’. Yiğit Soncul, Grant Bollmer and Maren Koehler will discuss the various ways they use Siegert to expand the focus of Anglophone media studies, embracing interdisciplinary crossings to examine how affects, bodies, identities, and spaces are shaped and produced by past and present ‘cultural techniques’.
*Partial recording of Grant Bollmer’s talk only