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The Mediated Mind - Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Mediated Mind - Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media economy? Why
are we now fixated on screens, imbibing information that constantly
expires, and longing for more direct or authentic kinds of
experience? The Mediated Mind answers these questions by revisiting
a previous media revolution, the nineteenth-century explosion of
mass print. Like our own smartphone screens, printed paper and
imprinted objects touched the most intimate regions of
nineteenth-century life. The rise of this printed ephemera, and its
new information economy, generated modern consumer experiences such
as voracious collecting and curating, fantasies of disembodied
mental travel, and information addiction. Susan Zieger demonstrates
how the nineteenth century established affective, psychological,
social, and cultural habits of media consumption that we still
experience, even as pixels supersede paper. Revealing the history
of our own moment, The Mediated Mind challenges the commonplace
assumption that our own new media lack a past, or that our own
experiences are unprecedented.
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