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The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist
version of Marshall McLuhan's key text, Understanding Media: The
Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that "the medium is the
message" for feminist ends. They argue that while McLuhan's theory
provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological
as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to
show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of
race, gender, class, and sexuality. This volume showcases essays,
experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars,
artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology.
Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan's discussion of
transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved
Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan's
concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as
media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and
decolonial practice. The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are
built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for
radical purposes. Contributors. Nasma Ahmed, Morehshin Allahyari,
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brooke Erin Duffy,
Ganaele Langlois, Sara Martel, Shannon Mattern, Cait McKinney,
Jeremy Packer, Craig Robertson, Sarah Sharma, Ladan Siad, Rianka
Singh, Nicholas Taylor, Armond R. Towns, and Jennifer Wemigwans
The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist
version of Marshall McLuhan's key text, Understanding Media: The
Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that "the medium is the
message" for feminist ends. They argue that while McLuhan's theory
provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological
as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to
show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of
race, gender, class, and sexuality. This volume showcases essays,
experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars,
artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology.
Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan's discussion of
transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved
Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan's
concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as
media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and
decolonial practice. The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are
built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for
radical purposes. Contributors. Nasma Ahmed, Morehshin Allahyari,
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brooke Erin Duffy,
Ganaele Langlois, Sara Martel, Shannon Mattern, Cait McKinney,
Jeremy Packer, Craig Robertson, Sarah Sharma, Ladan Siad, Rianka
Singh, Nicholas Taylor, Armond R. Towns, and Jennifer Wemigwans
The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often
that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by
those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by
those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption in
this sophisticated critical inquiry into the temporalities of
everyday life. Sharma conducted ethnographic research among
individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on
time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate
yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living
movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of
"power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven
politics of temporality. Focusing on how people's different
relationships to labor configures their experience of time, she
argues that both "speed-up" and "slow-down" often function as a
form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary
global capitalism.
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