Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to television, radio, newspapers, films, games and email, media is inescapable. This book, using some of Deleuze's key concepts as its starting point, offers a new systematic analysis of how media functions in our lives, and how we function through our media. While Harper and Savat take Deleuze as the starting point, they extend and define his concepts, pointing out advances made by theorists such as Marx, Mumfors, McLuhan and Williams in the attempt to answer the most Deleuzean of questions, 'what is it that media do?'

In a world where our lives are increasingly mediated by technologies it is surprising that more attention is not paid to the work of Gilles Deleuze. This is especially strange given Deleuze's often explicit focus and reliance on the machine and the technological. This volume offers readers a collective and determined effort to explore not only the usefulness of key ideas of Deleuze in thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future but, also aims to take seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art. This exciting collection of essays will be of relevance not only to scholars and students interested in the work of Deleuze but, also, to those interested in coming to terms with what might seem an increasing dominance of technology in day to day living. Contributors to this volume include: William Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, Bent Meier Sorensen and Eugene Thacker.