Performativity and Metaphor in New Materialist Media Theory

Theory, Reality, and Performativity in Markets

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relation between scientific knowledge in the form of theories and the world that such theories are about. The focus is on market theories. I argue that everyday knowledge, conceptualized using the notion of “lifeworld,” is the bedrock of scientific knowledge. I also make two distinctions, one between types of markets and one between principles of or...

Media ecologies: Materialist energies in art and technoculture

One day, you will discover a new adventure and knowledge by spending more money. But when? Do you think that you need to obtain those all requirements when having much money? Why don't you try to get something simple at first? That's something that will lead you to know more about the world, adventure, some places, history, entertainment, and more? It is your own time to continue reading habit....

Power Trouble: Performativity as Critical Theory

Although Judith Butler’s theory of the performativity of gender has been highly influential in feminist theory, queer theory, cultural studies, and some areas of philosophy, it has yet to receive its due from critical social theorists. This oversight is especially problematic given the crucial insights into the study of power – a central concept for critical social theory – that can be gleaned ...

Epistemological Pitfalls in Metaphor Comprehension: A Comparison of Three Models and a New Theory of Metaphor

Logic for Media - The Computational Media Metaphor

New media as they are established by information and communications technology demand for reconsidering the notion of a medium as a carrier of information and with it the concepts for representation, organization, processing and dissemination of information. We explore a general model for media, the Computational Media Metaphor and utilize Rewriting Logic and Labelled Deductive Systems to model...