We Need to Talk About Heidegger : Essays Situating Martin Heidegger in Contemporary Media Studies. This item is unavailable.We Need to Talk About Heidegger : Essays Situating Martin Heidegger in Contemporary Media Studies

This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in order to explore issues relevant to contemporary media studies. Following the release of Heidegger’s controversial Black Notebooks and the subsequent calls to abandon the philosopher, this book seeks to demonstrate why Heidegger, rather than be pushed aside and shunned by media practitioners, ought to be embraced by and further incorporated into the discipline, as he offers unique and often innovative pathways to address, and ultimately understand, our daily engagements with media-related phenomena.

Justin Michael Battin is Assistant Professor of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research focuses on intersecting various strands of Heidegger’s philosophy with the everyday uses of mobile media technologies and mobile social media.

German A. Duarte is Lecturer of Film and Media Studies at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His research interests include History of Media, Film History, Cybernetics, Cognitive-Cultural Economy and Philosophy.