Mediální moderna - Studie k soudobým formám de-abstrakce a mediality – group of authors (2015)

The collective monograph Media Modernity (Studies on Contemporary Forms of De-Abstraction and Mediality) offers the reader an analysis of theories and discussions related to the perception and interpretation of the world in the context of modern and postmodern media and culture. It presents a depiction of the shaping of reality and changes in the worldview through new media, among which electronic culture is increasingly gaining a central position. In this context, the authors attempt to outline the relationship between art, science, and media from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art-historical perspectives. Implicitly, they are united by the effort to capture the role of media in shaping the image of the world and in the social 'construction' of reality. In their investigations, they build on the ideas, stimuli, and concepts of T. W. Adorno, G. Agamben, V. Flusser, N. Luhmann, P. Sloterdijk, and P. Virilio. The aspirations of the book were articulated by the editor and one of the authors, Jiří Bystřický, in his introduction: Although we still linger in the backdrop of a world that we have relatively diligently created and primarily socially constructed, it is still not a completely complete, accurate, and sufficiently familiar space of our lives. Its accepted components have become apparatuses, techno-images, technologies, or systems...