Lorenz Engell & Bernhard Siegert 
Producing Places [PDF ebook] 
Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Heft 5/1/2014

‘Producing places’ is a twofold topic. It can refer to places as sites that produce something, that are productive, that have operations unfold, or actions happen, or objects emerge. Likewise, it can refer to the fabrication of places as specific entities themselves. With the extended availability and practicability of digital positioning, locating and tracking systems, it has become most evident that places are not just there, but that they are generated, that they are subject to media technological operations and effects. And as such, they are fabricated themselves, they are not only active in production, but subject to production. So with the question of producing places, a media theoretical challenge has come up that needs to be tackled.

Contents

___ Editorial
Lorenz Engell / Bernhard Siegert

___ Aufsätze

Jimena Canales
Einstein’s Discourse Networks

Iris Därmann
Myths of Labour. Elements of an Economical Zoology

___ Archiv

Li Lishu
The Infinite Cinema: A Discussion with Mr. Xu Chi on ‘The Limit of Cinema’ and The Limit of Art: A Second Discussion on the Infinite Cinema

Weihong Bao
Li Lishui’s Medium Ontology: A Commentary

___ Schwerpunkt Producing Places

Ludger Schwarte
The City—A Popular Assembly

Laura Frahm
The Rules of Attraction: Urban Design, City Films, and Movement Studies

Michael Cuntz
Places Proper and Attached or the Agency of the Ground and the Collectives of Domestication

Andrew Pickering
Islands of Stability: Engaging Emergence from Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement

Ben Robinson
Disassembling the ›SAN DOMINICK‹. Sovereignty, the Slave Ship, and Partisanship in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno

Ulrich Meurer
Composite Congress. On Dispersal Patterns in Mathew Brady’s Political Imagery