The politics of enchantment [[electronic resource] ] : romanticism, media, and cultural studies / / J. David Black

• Autore: Black J. David (John David), <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.01
• Soggetto topico: Romanticism; Mass media - Philosophy; Culture - Philosophy; Mass media criticism; Culture - Study and teaching
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the politics of enchantment -- The education of desire : romanticizing cultural studies -- The secret police at the disco : interrogating cultural studies -- The presence of the past : some problems in media research -- The enemies of love : misusing romanticism -- Information wants to be free : a romantic approach to new media -- The market in the fallen world : cultural studies and political economy -- Conclusion : wrestling with the angels.
• Sommario/riassunto: What do "raves" have to do with eighteenth-century Romanticism, or the latest communication technologies with historical ideas about language, media, and culture? Today's culture dazzles us with technological marvels and media spectacles. While we find them entertaining, just as often they are troubling--they seem to contradict common sense, eliciting such questions as What is real? or What is reality? and What is language? or What does language do? These questions, once confined to scholars, have become everyone's concern. Some of the best answers might be found in an unexpected source: Romanticism. Too often we bring the values of the Enlightenment, particularly that of reason, to critique phenomena not inherently rational, such as pop culture or the Internet. This means that much criticism of current culture already has an intellectual foundation antagonistic to it--inviting postmodern arguments that suggest history has ended and reality is an illusion. In contrast, Romanticism, a cultural movement founded in Germany and England during the late eighteenth century, offers us an archive of concepts surprisingly sensitive to these problems. The Romantics were poets, dreamers, and politicians who advanced ideas that anticipated much contemporary thinking. David Black has organized these ideas systematically, and has then applied them to key issues in communications, such as representation, audience, and the information society, as well as to significant debates in cultural studies. As a result, The Politics of Enchantment offers a new theory of media and culture that is grounded in intellectual history, yet as feverishly current as the latest digital device.
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of enchantment
• ISBN: 1-280-92559-0; 9786610925599; 0-88920-880-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151626403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)