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In the age of the spectacle, democracy has never looked so bleak.
Our world, saturated with media and marketing, endlessly confronts
us with spectacles vying for our attention: from Apple and 9/11 to
Facebook and the global financial crisis. Democratic politics, by
comparison, remain far from engaging. A society obsessed with
spectacles results in a complete misfiring of the democratic
system. This book uses critical democratic theory to outline the
effects of consumer culture on citizenship. It highlights the
importance that public space plays in creating the critical culture
necessary for a healthy democracy, and outlines how contemporary
'public' spaces - shopping centres, the Internet, social networking
sites and suburban communities - contribute to this culture.
Terrorism, ecological destruction and the financial crisis are also
outlined as symptoms of the politics of the spectacle. The book
concludes with some basic principles and novel suggestions which
could be employed to avoid the pitfalls inherent in our spectacular
existence.
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?'
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?'
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