Media. Between magic and technology

The effects of the media - the totalizing effect of the media, the ambiguity of the reaction to the achievements of the world of technology and their imaginary freedoms - contribute to the retention of this concept in the turnover of cultural criticism, not one decade. The seeming clarity of what media is, which means the mediation function and what the structure of the medial, with attentive consideration, hides in itself the deep problems of communication of the technical and anthropological, machine and aesthetic, intangible and real. The categorical search for modern media theorists is then sent further descriptions on the occasion, statements in the apocalyptic tone and techno-visionary predictions and is more stringent and aimed at productive knowledge. In the proposed collection, the works of authors are collected, by the advantage of a significant methodological prospector to the Russian reader and representing the palette of significant methodological prospects for media philosophical studies today