Nathaniel Zetter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathaniel Zetter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathaniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zetter |
| SIGNATURE | ZETTER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1834-9046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cybernetic melancholia
Chris Ware’s formal and stylistic inventiveness in his 2012 graphic narrative, Building Stories, presents a challenge to traditional theories of the form. This essay argues, however, that Ware’s experimentation can be understood through the descriptive language of cybernetic thought. Whilst the use of informatics may suggest a neutral or affectless register, Building Stories in fact presents a convergence between cybernetics and the affect of mel…
Inscription and ‘Anscription’
This essay proposes the concept of ‘anscription’, and employs it to re-think some of the typical valences of inscription in media theory. The word is derived from the German anschreiben, which can simply mean, ‘to write up’, but also refers to the specific act, and the set of social relations that come into place, when one writes something up on a blackboard. Not quite encompassed by inscription, it offers an essential counterpart to the term for…
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Inscription and ‘Anscription’
This essay proposes the concept of ‘anscription’, and employs it to re-think some of the typical valences of inscription in media theory. The word is derived from the German anschreiben, which can simply mean, ‘to write up’, but also refers to the specific act, and the set of social relations that come into place, when one writes something up on a blackboard. Not quite encompassed by inscription, it offers an essential counterpart to the term for…
Cybernetic melancholia
Chris Ware’s formal and stylistic inventiveness in his 2012 graphic narrative, Building Stories, presents a challenge to traditional theories of the form. This essay argues, however, that Ware’s experimentation can be understood through the descriptive language of cybernetic thought. Whilst the use of informatics may suggest a neutral or affectless register, Building Stories in fact presents a convergence between cybernetics and the affect of mel…
Art, Technology, and Culture (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Artificiality (1 work) · Autopoiesis (1 work)