Vol./No. 03/01

Vendela Grundell: Rethinking while Redoing

Abstract This article addresses ableism in 21st century network society by analysing afford- ances in…
Torsten Andreasen: Destituting the Interface

Abstract This article proposes the affordance of the medium and the determination of the dispositif…
Özgün Eylül İşcen: Forensic Aesthetics for Militarized Drone Strikes

Abstract Drawing upon the critical scholarship on drone warfare, this article argues that drones’ mistargeting of…
Maximillian Alvarez: (Digital) Media as Critical Pedagogy

Abstract From chalkboard sites to social media, from smartphones to interactive grading software, there is an…
Miyazaki: Take Back the Algorithms!

In this video-abstract, Shintaro Miyazaki introduces his article ‘Take Back the Algorithms! A Media Theory of…
Ashley Scarlett & Martin Zeilinger: Rethinking Affordance

Ashley Scarlett & Martin Zeilinger introduce their special issue of Media Theory on Rethinking Affordance. …
Olia Lialina: Once Again, The Doorknob

Abstract Based on the author’s keynote lecture at the 2018 ‘Rethinking Affordance’ symposium (Stuttgart, Germany), this…
Mark Nunes: The Affordances of Place

Abstract Affordances provide a useful frame for understanding how users interact with devices, but applications…
Aline Guillermet: K.O. Götz’s Kinetic Electronic Painting

Abstract Between 1959 and 1963, the German Informel painter K.O. Götz produced a series of works…
Shintaro Miyazaki: Take Back the Algorithms!

Abstract This essay critiques the ‘black-boxing’ of many computational processes, which are argued to result in…