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V. Bühlmann:
"In Medias Naturae";
[mt] Media Theory Journal (eingeladen), 5 (2021), 1; 21 S.

Media, to Michel Serres, are not solely a cultural praxis, technology, or institution; in his circumstantial universalism, there is a veritable metaphysics of milieu at work. At the core of Serres´ relevancy for media theory (on whose project this article focuses mainly) is the architectonic status of public knowledge in what he calls the Chronopedia. This architectonics involves radical re-conceptions of space and time that allow philosophy, at least in principle, to maintain compatibility with contemporary science and technology. This article profiles two related projects in the light of each other, that of a Grand Récit of the Universe (Michel Serres) and that of The Unnameable Present (Roberto Calasso). For both projections, there appears nothing more urgent today than re-connecting a broad public vocabulary, repository of images and ideas, puzzles too, as well as expectations and understandings with regard to the abstractions and powers at work in the technology and science that organise how we live today, in the dawn of the Anthropocene.

Media, to Michel Serres, are not solely a cultural praxis, technology, or institution; in his circumstantial universalism, there is a veritable metaphysics of milieu at work. At the core of Serres´ relevancy for media theory (on whose project this article focuses mainly) is the architectonic status of public knowledge in what he calls the Chronopedia. This architectonics involves radical re-conceptions of space and time that allow philosophy, at least in principle, to maintain compatibility with contemporary science and technology. This article profiles two related projects in the light of each other, that of a Grand Récit of the Universe (Michel Serres) and that of The Unnameable Present (Roberto Calasso). For both projections, there appears nothing more urgent today than re-connecting a broad public vocabulary, repository of images and ideas, puzzles too, as well as expectations and understandings with regard to the abstractions and powers at work in the technology and science that organise how we live today, in the dawn of the Anthropocene.

Noise, New Materialism, the Cryptographic Locative, Circumstantial Metaphysics, Diachronicity, Chronopedia, Ecstatic Epiphany, Meteorological Order, Spaces of Similitude, White Concepts, Quantum Optics

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