我们的技术依赖于不断扩大的基础设施，包括电线、路由器、服务器和硬盘驱动器，这些设备的激增在有意识的知识之前重塑了人类的互动和体验。理解这些技术需要一种方法，将媒体作为一种代理人，在内容或表现之外的世界生产中进行合作。唯物主义媒体理论提供了一个通俗易懂的、综合的理论人文学科前沿的描述，考察了媒体在塑造文化、空间、时间、认知和生活本身中的物理和基础设施作用的一系列方法。
唯物主义媒体理论不仅仅是一个导论，它还对物质和媒体进行了批判性的干预，引起了媒体研究、传播、文化研究、视觉文化等领域的学生和研究人员的兴趣。媒体决定我们的现实，任何媒体政治都必须从突出媒体的重要性开始。
Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction
Our technologies rely on an ever-expanding infrastructure of wires, routers, servers, and hard drives-a proliferation of devices that reshape human interaction and experience prior to conscious knowledge. Understanding these technologies requires an approach that foregrounds media as an agent that collaborates in the production of the world beyond content or representation. Materialist Media Theory provides an accessible, synthetic account of the cutting edge of the theoretical humanities, examining a range of approaches to media’s physical, infrastructural role in shaping culture, space, time, cognition, and life itself.
More than a mere introduction, Materialist Media Theory provides a critical intervention into matter and media, of interest to students and researchers in media studies, communication, cultural studies, visual culture, and beyond. Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding the media’s materiality.
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