Byzantine Media Subjects (eBook)

Glenn A. Peers (Autor)

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2024
320 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501775048 (ISBN)

Infos

Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman.

The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.

Autor

Glenn Peers is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at both Syracuse University and the University of Texas at Austin. Among his eight books are, as author, Animism, Materiality, and Museums and Sacred Shock, and, as editor, Byzantine Things in the World. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.

Inhalt

Making Media Subjects
1. The Mandylion's Marital and Martial Message Machines
2. Animal Media and Personhood
3. Mingling Musical Subjects
4. Monk-Making and Time
5. Mirror as Media and Triclinius's Man in the Moon
Conclusion: So-Called Man and Media Deliverance

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
• Zusatzinfo: 41 b&w halftones, 38 color halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: posthuman, kittler, artistic agency, Mandylion, animism, materialism, cultural images, technology
• ISBN-13: 9781501775048 / 9781501775048