Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Media Studies

In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a ?katastroph of the sensible?. This katastroph is not an apocalypse or the end of everything, but the denouement of a drama; it is the final act in the process of psychic and collective individuation known as the ?West?.

Hyper-industrialization has brought about the loss of symbolic participation and the destruction of primordial narcissism, the very condition...

"This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." --Voice Literary Supplement

"The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary debate in the humanities." --Communication Abstracts

"Mellencamp has produced a challenging and an invigorating text.... It should provide much inspiration." --Journal of Communication

"This is a particularly good collection of thirteen papers with, overall, much more theoretically...

"The author s capacity to grasp and interpret these world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." Choice

..". a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " Times Literary Supplement

..". this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." The New Statesman

"Wark is one of the most original and interesting...

Of the many books written about Will Rogers, none can have the immediacy, firsthand knowledge, and personal perspective of this account by his wife, Betty Blake Rogers. Her story is of Will Rogers, from wayward youth to international celebrity.

Will was born in 1879 in the Cherokee nation of Indian Territory, near what is now Oologah, and died in 1935 with Wiley Post in an airplane crash in Alaska. The period witnessed the passing of the frontier and the arrival of the air age, and Will Rogers became a unique part and interpreter of it all.

"The book offers a unique insight...