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By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking
in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy,
Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage
interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason
and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and
periphery, freedom and containment, self and other. We still dream
early modern dreams (Reason, the Subject, the Nation, the Modern
World), and we are still haunted by the void at the center of it
all.
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking
in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy,
Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage
interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason
and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and
periphery, freedom and containment, self and other. We still dream
early modern dreams (Reason, the Subject, the Nation, the Modern
World), and we are still haunted by the void at the center of it
all.
This volume explores the intersection between theories of the
modern spectacle--from Jose Antonio Maravall's conceptualization of
the spectacular culture of the baroque to the Frankfurt School's
theorization of mass culture, to Baudrillard's notion of the
simulacrum, to Guy Debord's understanding of the society of the
spectacle--and the findings of the emerging fields of urban
studies, landscape studies, and, generally speaking, studies of
space.
This volume explores the intersection between theories of the
modern spectacle--from Jose Antonio Maravall's conceptualization of
the spectacular culture of the baroque to the Frankfurt School's
theorization of mass culture, to Baudrillard's notion of the
simulacrum, to Guy Debord's understanding of the society of the
spectacle--and the findings of the emerging fields of urban
studies, landscape studies, and, generally speaking, studies of
space.
We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological
change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans
process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media
with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied
in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a
crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become
inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world
outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We
call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's
medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the
contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and
economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars,
combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis,
relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but
also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book
invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how
truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the
everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful
analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work
is crucial to understanding reality in the information age.
We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological
change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans
process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media
with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied
in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a
crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become
inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world
outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We
call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's
medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the
contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and
economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars,
combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis,
relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but
also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book
invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how
truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the
everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful
analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work
is crucial to understanding reality in the information age.
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