Encylopedia of Media:
Media and Literature (Fourth volume)
By Peter Weibel. Published by the University of Applied Arts Vienna and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Germany

Enzyklopädie der Medien:
Literatur und Medien
Expansion der Sprachkunst ins visuelle und technische
By Peter Weibel (Editor), Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (Editor), ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karl (Editor). Germany

Bibliographic Details

Size: 24 x 16.5 x 5 cm

Pages: 696 pages

Published date: June 2021
Publisher: ‎Hatje Cantz Verlag
Author: Peter Weibel
German Edition
ISBN-13: ‎978-3775738736

From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world.

The author has conceived this series as following in the tradition of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert. The first two volumes cover architecture and music, volume 3 and 4 address the influence of the new media on art and literature. Politics and theory in the context of new media are the topics of volume 5 and 6 that are in preparation.