An argument for a shift in understanding new media-from a
fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes
of mediation. In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna
Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding
of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination
with objects-computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles-to an
examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological
processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life
itself can be understood as mediated-subject to the same processes
of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting
undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinska's account,
the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and
social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities.
Mediation-all-encompassing and indivisible-becomes for them a key
trope for understanding our being in the technological world.
Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a
rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine
the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider
the ethical necessity of making a "cut" to any media processes in
order to contain them. Considering topics that range from
media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a
new way of "doing" media studies that is simultaneously critical
and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and
practice.
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