Life after New Media - Mediation as a Vital Process (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Life after New Media
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	2012
Authors:	Sarah Kember (Professor of New Technologies of Communication) • Joanna Zylinska
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-52746-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > Advertising
LSN:	0-262-52746-4
Barcode:	9780262527460

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