Collection: Exeter Concepts in Media Thinking

Series editors: Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and Tomáš Dvořák, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

Media Philosophy is a new terrain for exploring questions of media. Emerged yet emancipated from traditional Media Studies, media philosophy, as understood in this series, focuses on media’s specific capacities and potentials. Can media do ‘thinking’ – can media do philosophy? And if the answer is “yes” – what are the concepts that emerge from these practices?

Exeter Concepts in Media Thinking provides a venue for thinking about the relationship between media and philosophy anew. Can these disciplines benefit from each other, and—more provocatively, perhaps—do film and its older sister arts/media (literature, music, fine art, photography, etc) amount to forms of thought that are partially independent of philosophical reflection ‘proper’ and thus potential rivals to it? That is to say, are artistic practices and their visual, auditory, and textual expressions on the same footing as philosophy, considered as a thinking practice? The focus of this series does not consist of finding definitions, obtaining empirical investigations, or assembling a definite critique of the phenomenon “media.” It rather searches for philosophically relevant reflection, particular medial philosophical ways of thought: specifically medial (cinematic, sonic, poetic, etc) experiments with new forms of philosophical expression of what media ‘can do.’

The unique value of this series is in presenting shorter format books (30,000 to 40,000 words) that can contribute new insights to this debate, leading to a growing and flexible collection of media-philosophical concepts that enable a kind of media-philosophical experimentation that is the very essence of ‘doing thinking.’ We invite proposals from scholars in the fields of philosophy, media philosophy, art theory and cultural and media studies.

To discuss your book proposal or for more information please contact the series editors:

Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, herzogenrath@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Tomáš Dvořák, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, tomdvorak@hotmail.com

Or Commissioning Editor: Becky Taylor, b.taylor@exeterpress.co.uk