Techne;/Technology offers a penetrating, close look at the origins of the term techne;, which unleashed a revolution in cinema and media studies when it was first introduced and which continues to influence the study of film as the digital revolution rolls along. The contributors investigate the effects of technologies on major film debates and, moreover, how technologies have affected film theory and its key concepts.

Annie van den Oever is Extraordinary Professor of Film and Visual Media at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and director of the Master in Film Studies program and head of the film archive at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Editorial
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies
Annie van den Oever
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PART I. Philosophy of Technology: Reassessing Key Questions
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The Philosophy of Technology in the Frame of Film Theory: Walter Benjamin's Contribution
Dominique Chateau
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Toward an Archaeology of the Cinema/Technology Relation: From Mechanization to "Digital Cinema"
Benoît Turquety
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Techne and Poiesis: On Heidegger and Film Theory
Robert Sinnerbrink
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Stiegler's Post-Phenomenological Account of Mediated Experience
Patrick Crogan
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What Are Media?
Lambert Wiesing
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PART II. Cinema and Media Technologies: Hardware, Software, Wetware
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The "History of Vision" Debate Revisited
Annemone Ligensa
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Will the 3D Revolution Happen? A Brief Perspective on the Long History of Stereoscopy (with Special Thanks to Eisenstein and Bazin)
Ian Christie
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Television's Many Technologies: Domesticity, Governmentality, Genealogy
Markus Stauff
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Postmodern Hi-fi vs. Post-Cool Lo-fi: An Epistemological War
Laurent Jullier
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PART III. Cinema and Media Technologies: A Historical Context
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Marey's Gun: Apparatuses of Capture and the Operational Image
Pasi Va;liaho
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Re-editing as Psychotechnique: Montage and Mediality in Early Soviet Cinema
Malte Hagener
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Technophobia and Italian Film Theory in the Interwar Period
Francesco Pitassio
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Jean-Luc Godard's HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA: Cogito Ergo Video
Ce;line Scemama
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Performativity/Expressivity: The Mobile Micro Screen and Its Subject
Nanna Verhoeff and Heidi Rae Cooley
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PART IV. Discussions: Revisiting the Past
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Rethinking the Materiality of Technical Media: Friedrich Kittler, Enfant Terrible with a Rejuvenating Effect on Parental Discipline - A Dialogue
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Annie van den Oever
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Revisiting Christian Metz's "Apparatus Theory" - A Dialogue
Martin Lefebvre and Annie van den Oever
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PART V. Envisioning the Future
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The Future History of a Vanishing Medium
Andre; Gaudreault
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Experimental Media Archaeology: A Plea for New Directions
Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever
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Notes
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General Bibliography
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Notes on Contributors
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Index of Names
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Index of Film Titles
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Index of Subjects