Mediarchy

ISBN-13: 9781509533398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 308 str.

Yves Citton

Opis

"We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. In this major book, Yves Citton maps out the new regime of experience, media and power that he designates by the term 'mediarchy'. This comprehensive and far-reaching book examines the multiple complex ways that the media shape our social, political and personal lives today"--

Recenzje

'Mediarchy is a magnificent work of synthesis that brings together many different approaches to media. Citton boldly puts the analysis of media at the centre of social thought and shows just how many of the things we observe about our times fall into place through this perspective.' McKenzie Wark, New School for Social Research 'Grounded and creative, this book proposes a timely synthesis of recent media theory. Citton questions the "transcontinental divide" that has informed Media Studies from its onset and in the process manages to breathe new life into some of the most fundamental questions facing media critics today. Mediarchy is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the complex, multitiered operationality of media in our modern world.' Mark Hansen, Duke University

Spis treści

Contents Prelude: Democracy or mediarchy? PART ONE: MEDIA Chapter One: Naming mediarchy Interlude One: Heterarchy Chapter Two: Approaching mediarchy Interlude Two: Informational pharmacology Chapter Three: Unfolding mediarchy Interlude Three: Affective meteorologies Chapter Four: Equipping mediarchy PART TWO: MASS MEDIA Chapter Five: Massifying mediarchy Interlude: Populisms Chapter Six: Systematizing mediarchy Interlude Five: Media powers Chapter Seven: Decolonizing mediarchy PART THREE: MEDIUM Chapter Eight: Archaeologizing mediarchy Interlude: Accelerationisms Chapter Nine: Stratifying mediarchy The politics of low frequencies Chapter Ten: Magnetizing mediarchy Interlude: Formative milieus Chapter Eleven: Zombifying mediarchy PART FOUR: META-MEDIA Chapter Twelve: Digitizing mediarchy Interlude: Data commons Chapter Thirteen: Inhabiting mediarchy Interlude: Mediarchic metamorphoses Chapter Fourteen: Surprising mediarchy Postlude: Medianarchism? List of illustrations Notes

O autorze

Yves Citton is Professor in Literature and Media at the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, co-editor of the journal Multitudes, and director of the ArTeC Graduate School in Paris.