Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. Preface 9
4. Mediality: Concepts and Models
5. Differentiating Media 19
6. The Medium as Form 37
7. Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- and Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse 49
8. Original Copy—Secondary Practices 77
9. Rumor—More or Less at Home: On Theories of News Value in the 20th Century 87
10. “Get the Message Through.” From the Channel of Communication to the Message of the Medium (1945-1960) 109
11. Discourses: Dispositives and Politics
12. Picture Events: Abu Ghraib 141
13. Voice Politics: Establishing the ‘Loud/Speaker’ in the Political Communication of National Socialism 161
14. Electricity, Spirit Mediums, and the Media of Spirits 187
15. Normativity and Normality 201
16. Mass Media Are Effective: On an Aporetic Cunning of Evidence 231
17. Extraordinary Stories of the Ordinary Use of Media 249
18. The Governmentality of Media: Television as ‘Problem’ and ‘Instrument’ 263
19. Procedures: Aesthetics and Modes
20. In Between Languages—In Between Cultures: Walter Benjamin’s “Interlinear Version” of Translation as Inframediality 285
21. Finding Openings with Opening Credits 307
22. The Reflexivity of Voice 333
23. A Handout on the Subject of ‘Talking Hands’ 349
24. What Hands Can Tell Us: From the ‘Speaking’ to the ‘Expressive’ Hand 367
25. Semiotics of the Human: Physiognomy of Images and Literary Transcription in Johann Caspar Lavater and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 391
26. Ultraparadoxical: On the Gravity of the Human Experiment in Pavlov and Pynchon 405
27. Bastards: Text/Image Hybrids in Pop Writing by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Others 429
28. AUTHORS 463