物质媒介研究是与对“物性”问题的理论关注联袂而出的相关探究。后人类时代媒介的物质性问题开始被推向理论思考的前台。面对这样的现状，马克思主义成为审视与反思这一现状的重要理论资源和视域。马克思对技术的关注和探索，主要聚焦于人与物之间的关系上，并通过商品和资本、异化和物化、生产力等层面，探讨了人与物的分离问题，开启了其对物进行追问的方式。循此足迹，本雅明则首先将技术理解为媒介，并通过对灵韵和媒介化的讨论，以一种正面与积极的倾向去探讨物对人、即新媒介与新技术对大众和文化的影响。从批判理论学派开始，通过对媒介物性内容压制与麻痹人的感性系统的关注，到居伊·德波和鲍德里亚对媒介化的激烈回应，人与物的对立关系不断凸显。伯明翰学派的经典文化研究则挖掘了媒介文化的抗争功能，从而启发了后来关于物的媒介化与媒介的物化这种媒介物质性问题的研究。

The material media study is related to the theoretical attention on the problem of materiality. The material problems of media are beginning to be pushed to the forefront of theoretical thinking in the posthuman era. Under such circumstances, Marxism becomes the important theoretical resources and perspective examining and reflecting on the current situation. Marxs concerns and explorations for technology mainly focus on the relationship between people and things. He probes into the problems of separation of people and things through exploration of goods and capital, alienation and materialization, productivity and other aspects, thus opening the way by which he makes an inquiry into materiality. Follow this footprint, Benjamin is the first one who interprets technology as media, and explores the impacts of things on people, that is new media and new technology to the masses and culture in a positive and affirmative tendency by way of discussing the aura and mediation. The opposite relation between people and things is constantly highlighted and heated up, ranging from the Critical Theory School that focuses on the material content of media repressing and paralyzing the perceptual system of people, to Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard who fiercely respond to mediation. The study on classical culture of Birmingham School excavates the resistance functions of media culture, which inspired the later study on the problem of media materiality concerning mediation of thing and the thingified media.