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The Mediated Mind : Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century / Susan Zieger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 16Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823279821
  • 9780823279852
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 23
LOC classification:
  • P96.L5 Z54 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- contents -- Introduction. From Paper to Pixel -- chapter 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Per for mance in the Making of Mass Culture -- chapter 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes's Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction -- chapter 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious -- chapter 4. "Dreaming True": Playback, Immediacy, and "Du Maurierness" -- chapter 5. "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture -- Conclusion. Unknown Publics -- acknowledgments -- notes -- Index
Summary: How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media economy? Why are we now fixated on screens, imbibing information that constantly expires, and longing for more direct or authentic kinds of experience? The Mediated Mind answers these questions by revisiting a previous media revolution, the nineteenth-century explosion of mass print. Like our own smartphone screens, printed paper and imprinted objects touched the most intimate regions of nineteenth-century life. The rise of this printed ephemera, and its new information economy, generated modern consumer experiences such as voracious collecting and curating, fantasies of disembodied mental travel, and information addiction. Susan Zieger demonstrates how the nineteenth century established affective, psychological, social, and cultural habits of media consumption that we still experience, even as pixels supersede paper. Revealing the history of our own moment, The Mediated Mind challenges the commonplace assumption that our own new media lack a past, or that our own experiences are unprecedented.
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Frontmatter -- contents -- Introduction. From Paper to Pixel -- chapter 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Per for mance in the Making of Mass Culture -- chapter 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes's Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction -- chapter 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious -- chapter 4. "Dreaming True": Playback, Immediacy, and "Du Maurierness" -- chapter 5. "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture -- Conclusion. Unknown Publics -- acknowledgments -- notes -- Index

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How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media economy? Why are we now fixated on screens, imbibing information that constantly expires, and longing for more direct or authentic kinds of experience? The Mediated Mind answers these questions by revisiting a previous media revolution, the nineteenth-century explosion of mass print. Like our own smartphone screens, printed paper and imprinted objects touched the most intimate regions of nineteenth-century life. The rise of this printed ephemera, and its new information economy, generated modern consumer experiences such as voracious collecting and curating, fantasies of disembodied mental travel, and information addiction. Susan Zieger demonstrates how the nineteenth century established affective, psychological, social, and cultural habits of media consumption that we still experience, even as pixels supersede paper. Revealing the history of our own moment, The Mediated Mind challenges the commonplace assumption that our own new media lack a past, or that our own experiences are unprecedented.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)