Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies such as the radio and the photo cell.

Autorentext
Arndt Niebisch is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Inhalt

1. The Press and the Parasites 2. Poetic Media Effects 3. Parasitic Media 4. Parasitic Noise 5. Ether Parasites Conclusion: Odradek and the Future of the Parasite