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1 online resource (xxviii, 199 pages) |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Contents |
The submedial subject and the flux of signs -- The truth of the medial and the state of exception -- The media-ontological suspicion and philosophical skepticism -- The phenomenology of medial sincerity -- The gaze of the other -- The medium becomes the message -- The case of exception and the truth of the medial -- Marcel Mauss: symbolic exchange or civilization under water -- Claude Lévi-Strauss: mana or the floating signifier -- Georges Bataille: the potlatch with the sun -- Jacques Derrida: the lack of time and its ghosts -- Jean-François Lyotard: the roller-coaster of the sublime -- The time of signs -- Suspicion is the medium |
| Summary |
Since the public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust, the media's central concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on politics, culture, society, and conceptions of the self. He relies on different philosophical writings thematizing the gaze of the other, from the theories of Heidegger, Sartre, Mauss, and Bataill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Art -- Philosophy.
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics, Modern
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Art -- Philosophy
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Postmodernism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Strathausen, Carsten, translator.
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| ISBN |
9780231518499 |
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0231518498 |
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