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Intensive Media - Aversive Affect and Visual Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Intensive Media - Aversive Affect and Visual Culture (Hardcover, New)
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There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter
with individual and collective experiences of human suffering.
Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated
by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as
they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments. In
the contexts of crisis, conflict and suffering explored throughout
this book, aversive affect operates micropolitically to make
explicit or hide the material conditions that surround instances of
pain in all its specificity. That is, in so many scenarios,
personal, social and political stakes are set around the thresholds
of intensity that give rise to a 'sense' of pain and the
unpredictable valences of its aversive affects. It is in this sense
that McCosker and his case studies develop outwards from the middle
of what has been referred to as 'the problem of pain', a problem
that traverses media, communication, art, sociality and politics in
their confrontation with affect, biology and neurophysiology.
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