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Medialogies : reading reality in the age of inflationary media / David R. Castillo and William Egginton.
Author
Castillo, David R., 1967-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
©2017
Description
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HM1206 .C378 2017
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Authenticity (Philosophy) in mass media
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Reality in mass media
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Mass media
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Social aspects
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Mass media
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Technological innovations
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Author
Egginton, William, 1969-
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Series
Political theory and contemporary philosophy
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Summary note
We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars, combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis, relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work is crucial to understanding reality in the information age. - Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
Contents
pt. 1 Inflationary Media
1. Editing Reality
2. A New Perspective
3. Theatricality
4. Commodity-Spectacles
5. How to Turn Things into Copies, and Copies into Things
pt. 2 Fundamentals
6. Ineffable Me
7. Foundations
8. Freedom for Sale
9. Crime Shows
10. Political Theater
11. Monumental Screens
12. The New Fundamentals
pt. 3 Exclusions
13. Terrifying Vistas of Reality
14. Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists
15. The Global Undead
16. Dark Mirrors
17. Apocalypse Then and Now
pt. 4 In Defense of Being
18. Minor Strategies
19. Stranger than Fiction
20. Truth and Lies in Life and Art
21. Staging the Event
22. The Architecture of Mourning
23. Occupy and Resist
24. Empire of Solitude.
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Reading reality in the age of inflationary media
ISBN
9781628923605 ((HB))
1628923601 ((HB))
9781628923599 ((PB))
1628923598 ((PB))
LCCN
2017288323
OCLC
957546454
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