Media primitivism : technological art in Africa /

"MEDIA PRIMITIVISM is a major work of media theory centering Africa. In order to redefine ideas of the medium and mediation, Delinda Collier deconstructs terms that have been formative in the conceptualization of African art (in particular, the fetish), rethinking them in light of another abstr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collier, Delinda, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020]
Series:Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Film as Light, Film as Indigenous
  • Electronic Sound as Trance and Resonance
  • The Song as Private Property
  • Artificial Blackness: Or, Extraction as Abstraction
  • "The Earth and the Substratum are Not Enough"
  • The Seed and the Field.