Summer School

Topic Announced for the 2018 Summer School for Media Studies

Drawing of man with telescope

Scaling. What happens when we scale things up or down?



Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies



Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie

(Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)



German Department (Princeton University)

Princeton, New Jersey, June 16–24, 2018

The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies -a collaboration between Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/) and Princeton University (http://german.princeton.edu/ssms)-returns to Princeton in 2018 for its eighth installment. The 2018 session will be devoted to the investigation of scale and scaling as operative concepts for the analysis of media. What happens when we scale? Does anything really change? Can scaling ever impact the inner blueprint of an object? Are there laws of scaling? Or does scaling resist any attempt at calculability, such that, to investigate it, we can only ever look at individual events of scaling? As a media practice, scaling is widely used. But, in contrast to the ubiquity of operations, scaling is hardly ever viewed on its own terms as a basic concept of media analysis. The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies 2018 will attempt to map out approaches to scaling as a basic media-analytical tool.

The summer school will be directed by Bernhard Siegert (Weimar) and Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton). The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies invites applications from outstanding doctoral students throughout the world in media studies and related fields such as film studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history, architecture, sociology, politics, the history of science and visual culture.

For the most up-to-date information on the program and faculty of the Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies please visit http://www.ikkm-weimar.de (http://www.ikkm-weimar.de)

and http://german.princeton.edu/ssms (http://german.princeton.edu/ssms).

All application materials should be sent via email to: ikkm-conference@uni-weimar.de and must be received no later than December 22nd, 2017.

Coordinators:

Katharina Rein (Weimar)

Ron Sadan (Princeton)

Please submit all inquiries to: ikkm-conference@uni-weimar.de

Click here (http://german.princeton.edu/ssms/files/2017/11/PWSS-2018-CfA.pdf” for Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies 2018 PDF.