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SUMMARY:Wireless Futures: Speculative Media and German Modernity
LOCATION:Olin Library Room 108\, Olin Library\, Ithaca\, NY 14850\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Erik Born\, a
 ssociate professor in the Department of German Studies\, as he discusses 
 his latest book\, Wireless Futures: Speculative Media and German Modernit
 y (Edinburgh University Press\, 2026). Wireless Futures argues that what 
 wireless media might become\, how they might reshape people and societies
 \, and whether the future might differ from the past all depend on market
 s\, technical limits\, and the sociotechnical imaginaries of media change
 . Focusing on German modernity\, the book examines wireless as an object 
 of financial and theoretical speculation that predates radio and Wi-Fi\, 
 modeling an approach to speculative media that tests the limits of media 
 knowledge and shows how the present continually remakes connections to th
 e past.\n\nThis talk is part of Cornell University Library's "Chats in th
 e Stacks" series that's free and open to the public. This book talk will 
 also be livestreamed\, with pre-registration at https://cornell.zoom.us/w
 ebinar/register/WN_Nkg-Q_YMQ2CN4uRyQpN79g\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/
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