Medium, Format, Configuration: The Displacements of Film - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1013295331 ISBN 13: 9781013295331

Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

In contrast with media constructed as vast, ontologically homogeneous, non-localized systems, formats show material networks of interoperability and exclusions, inscribed in local specificities, and involving precise conditions for the circulation of images and sounds. Formats, institutionalized as standards, frame the "technical networks" defined by Gilbert Simondon, that unfold technical objects into economically and politically structured webs that cover the world. Media are always formatted and, as such, do not flow: they are displaced.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1013295331
• ISBN 13: 9781013295331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 58