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June 2017, English
12×19 cm, 48 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-340-0
Series
The Contemporary Condition
Design
Dexter Sinister
Copublisher
Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum
Status
Available
Wolfgang Ernst

The Delayed Present

Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities & Techno-traumatic Irritations of “the Contemporary”

In the media theater of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of “the present” is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves. At that moment, human-related phenomenological analysis clashes with the media-archaeological close reading of the technological event, in an impossible effort to let the temporeal articulate itself. Media theorist Wolfgang Ernst’s The Delayed Present is the fourth volume of the Contemporary Condition.

Series
The Contemporary Condition offers a sustained inquiry into contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present. Departing from the assumption that the relationship between artistic practice and sociopolitical reality is radically changing, the series explores planetarity, the aesthetics of eco-systemic changes, and how the networked image can be understood as a relational assemblage to address the politics of infrastructure and wider ecologies. Series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund.
The Contemporary Condition