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urn:uuid:3553f7c2-9ca9-4c98-8e0e-27d036e95f8c 03 15 9783957961488 00 EB E107 10 10 02 00000007 01 02 In Search of Media 01 01 Machine 1 A01 Thomas Patrick Pringle Thomas Pringle is an SSHRC doctoral and presidential fellow at Brown University, where he is a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. 2 A01 Gertrud Koch Gertrud Koch is senior professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and visiting professor at Brown University. She is the author of numerous books. Her last publication in English was Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even and in German was Die Wiederkehr der Illusion. 3 A01 Bernard Stiegler Bernard Stiegler is head of the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and president of the Ars Industrialis association. He is the author of more than thirty books, including the recent English translation of Automatic Society: The Future of Work. 01 eng 00 104 03 23 Animation 12 JFD 04 P87-96 10 SOC052000 23 Automation 23 Cybernetics 23 Digitization 23 Economics 23 Ecosystems 23 Exploitation 23 Philosophy 23 Politics 23 Technology 01 06 03 00 In contrast with media constructed as vast, ontologically homogeneous, non-localized systems, formats show material networks of interoperability and exclusions, inscribed in local specificities, and involving precise conditions for the circulation of images and sounds. Formats, institutionalized as standards, frame the “technical networks” defined by Gilbert Simondon, that unfold technical objects into economically and politically structured webs that cover the world. Media are always formatted and, as such, do not flow: they are displaced. meson press 01 meson press 04 01 20190101 02 WORLD 06 15 9783957961488 WORLD 09 meson press 20 01