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Under Suspicion : A Phenomenology of Media / Boris Groys.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the ArtsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231146180
  • 9780231518499
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2301 23
LOC classification:
  • N7445.4 .G7613 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator 's Preface: Dead Man Thinking -- Introduction -- I. Submedial Space -- 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs -- 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception -- 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt -- 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity -- 5. The Gaze of the Other -- 6. The Medium Becomes the Message -- 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial -- II. The Economy of Suspicion -- 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water -- 9. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Mana ; or, the Floating Signifi er -- 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun -- 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters -- 12. Jean-François Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime -- 13. The Time of Signs -- 14. Suspicion Is the Medium -- Notes -- Index
Summary: The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary 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 Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media "states of exception" and their creation of effects of sincerity-a strategy that feeds the media's predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational, further fueling the public's suspicions. Emphasizing the media's production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of "facts," Groys launches a timely study boldly challenging the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator 's Preface: Dead Man Thinking -- Introduction -- I. Submedial Space -- 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs -- 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception -- 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt -- 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity -- 5. The Gaze of the Other -- 6. The Medium Becomes the Message -- 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial -- II. The Economy of Suspicion -- 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water -- 9. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Mana ; or, the Floating Signifi er -- 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun -- 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters -- 12. Jean-François Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime -- 13. The Time of Signs -- 14. Suspicion Is the Medium -- Notes -- Index

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The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary 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 Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media "states of exception" and their creation of effects of sincerity-a strategy that feeds the media's predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational, further fueling the public's suspicions. Emphasizing the media's production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of "facts," Groys launches a timely study boldly challenging the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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