Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication

By Arndt Niebisch

Book Overview

Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies such as the radio and the photo cell.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134944684X
• ISBN13: 9781349446841
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"