Here is the link to the project!

The new issue of the journal NAVIGATIONEN, published by Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter (together with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Beil, Cologne) centers around the MUSICAL AND MEDIA.

Die Ausgabe betrachtet verschiedene Medien, die durch Musicals beeinflusst werden, in denen Musicals stattfinden, die die Form des Musicals durch ihre Medialität verändern oder in denen Musicals Medien umorganisieren. In Anknüpfung an die bisherige Forschung der Musik- und Theaterwissenschaft wird das Musical durch die Rahmung als affektives Artefakt in der Synergie mit diversen medialen Formen für die medienwissenschaftliche Forschung geöffnet. Durch die Interdisziplinarität der Beiträge dient sie anschlussfähiger Startschuss der Bearbeitung medienwissenschaftlicher Blindflecke der Gattung Musical.

The issue looks at various media that are influenced by musicals, in which musicals take place, which change the form of the musical through their mediality or in which musicals reorganize media. Following on from previous research in musicology and theater studies, the musical is opened up to media studies research through its framing as an affective artifact in synergy with diverse media forms. Thanks to the interdisciplinary nature of the contributions, it serves as a useful starting point for addressing media studies blind spots in the musical genre.

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Here is the link to the conference!

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Very special thanks to Boris Eldagsen, who genereously allowed us to use two of his wonderful promptographies for the front- and back-cover. Published here with kind permission.

Here showing: Boris Eldagsen, PSEUDOMNESIA III [The Clairvoyant), promptography, 2023.

Here is the link to the open access version of the issue!

Here is the link to the cluster.

Here is the link to the website of Jens Schröter at the cluster.

Here is the link to my research project on the infrastructures of dependency.

This issue is a result of the research project Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld - Eine Simulation funded by Volkswagen foundation.

Here is the link to the whole issue!

How do artificial neural networks and other forms of artificial intelligence interfere with methods and practices in the sciences? Which interdisciplinary epistemological challenges arise when we think about the use of AI beyond its dependency on big data? Not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and the humanities seem to be increasingly affected by current approaches of subsymbolic AI, which master problems of quality (fuzziness, uncertainty) in a hitherto unknown way. But what are the conditions, implications, and effects of these (potential) epistemic transformations and how must research on AI be configured to address them adequately?

This is the first book to result from our research project HOW IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANGING SCIENCE?

Here is the link to the open access version!

Here is the link to the Workshop!

Image: William Henry Fox Talbot, Casts on Three Shelves, in the Courtyard of Lacock Abbey (detail), c. 1842–44,Salted paper print from a paper negative, 18 × 17.9 cm (sheet), Getty Museum, Los Angeles