Machinology

We are proud to announce the launch of a new book series titled Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques. Placed with Amsterdam University Press, a publisher known for its strong track-record in film and media studies, the series will publish fresh, exciting and important books in media theory. This includes both translations and other volumes that address the core themes outlined below. I am very excited about this project and working with my co-editors Anna Tuschling and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. We have already some significant projects lined up for 2015 and more forthcoming that we will announce in the coming weeks and months. We are supported by a very strong international advisory board. Get in touch if you want to learn more but first read below for more information!

New Series Announcement

The new book series Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality, and Cultural Techniques provides a platform for cutting- edge research in the field of media culture studies with a particular focus on the cultural impact of media technology and the materialities of communication. The series aims to be an internationally significant and exciting opening into emerging ideas in media theory ranging from media materialism and hardware-oriented studies to ecology, the post-human, the study of cultural techniques, and recent contributions to media archaeology.

The series revolves around key themes:

• The material underpinning of media theory
• New advances in media archaeology and media philosophy
• Studies in cultural techniques

These themes resonate with some of the most interesting debates in international media studies, where non-representational thought, the technicity of knowledge formations and new materialities expressed through biological and technological developments are changing the vocabularies of cultural theory. The series is also interested in the mediatic conditions of such theoretical ideas and developing them as media theory.

Forthcoming 2015

• Sybille Krämer – Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy.
• Claus Pias – Computer Game Worlds.

Editorial Board

• Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton)
• Anna Tuschling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (University of British Columbia)

Advisory Board:

• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University, US)
• Geert Lovink (Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• John Durham Peters (University of Iowa, US)
• Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University, US)
• Marie-Luise Angerer (University of Arts Cologne, Germany)
• Eva Horn (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Markus Krajewski (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Erick Felinto (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Adalberto Müller (Federal University of Niterói, UFF, Rio de Janeiro)
• Eivind Røssaak (National Library of Norway)
• Steven Connor (Cambridge University, UK)
• Peter Krapp (UC Irvine, US)
• Antje Pfannkuchen (Dickinson College, PA, US)
• John Armitage (Winchester School of Art, UK)
• Till Heilmann (University of Siegen, Germany)
• Isabell Otto (University of Konstanz, Germany)
• Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (University of Bochum, Germany)
• Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
• Claus Pias (Leuphana University, Germany)
• Stefan Rieger (University of Bochum, Germany)
• Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
• Axel Fliethmann (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
• Yuji Nawata (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan)

Authors’ information

Proposals welcomed

Proposals for monographs or edited volumes should kindly follow the standard AUP Proposal Form (http://en.aup.nl/en/service/authors) and should also include the envisaged table of contents, an overview of the volume and abstracts of the proposed chapters or articles.

Further information

If you are interested in publishing a book with us please contact Jeroen Sondervan, Senior Commissioning Editor for Film & Media Studies at j.sondervan@aup.nl or one of the series editors.

More information about Amsterdam University Press.