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Record Nr.

UNINA9910147084303321

Autore

Clemens Justin

Titolo

Avoiding the subject : media, culture and the object / / Justin Clemens, Dominic Pettman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-280-95910-X

9786610959105

90-485-0588-7

1-4175-8192-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

PettmanDominic

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media and culture

Mass media - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Influence of Anxiety -- Chapter 1: The Aesthetic Object -- Chapter 2: The Love Object -- Chapter 3: The Elusive Object -- Chapter 4: The Media(ted) Object -- Chapter 5: The Shared Object -- Chapter 6: The Moveable Object -- Chapter 7: The Foreign Object -- Chapter 8: The Abject Object -- Conclusion: A Spanner in the Works -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local bus route tell us about the fortification of the West? What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis of contemporary community? And what can unauthorized pictures of Osama Bin Laden tell us about new methods of popular propaganda? These are only some of the thought-provoking questions raised in -Avoiding the Subject,- which highlights the feedback-loops between philosophy, technology, and politics in today's mediascape.