Conclusion: Shifting Horizons of Possibility

By Susanna Paasonen
Source: Media Materialities , pp 247-250
Publication Date: December 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789388176_25
Language: English

This concluding chapter addresses the materiality of media – devices, storage formats, platforms – as tied up with feeling; the sense of things. If media technology presents a material, ever-shifting horizon of possibility for what can or cannot be done at any given point in time, it also gives rise to modes of sensation as sounds and images materialise in different ways, and as they become differently experienced.

Keywords: actor-network theory ; Andrey Tarkovsky ; feeling ; film ; materiality ; media ecology ; media formats ; non-human agency ; sensation ; technology

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