Blog theory feedback and capture in the circuits of drive
Blog Theory develops a critical theory of contemporary media. Advancing her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging, friending, and texting capture their users in networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theo...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge ; Malden, MA
Polity Press
2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Blog Theory develops a critical theory of contemporary media. Advancing her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging, friending, and texting capture their users in networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to newly emerging social network platforms and applications. [...] Set against the background of the economic crisis wrought by neoliberalism, the book engages with recent work in contemporary media theory as well as with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek. Through these engagements, Dean defends the provocative thesis that reflexivity in complex networks is best understood via the psychoanalytic notion of the drives. She contends, moreover, that reading networks in terms of the drives enables us to grasp their real, human dimension, that is, the feelings and affects that embed us in the system. In remarkably clear and lucid prose, Dean links seemingly trivial and transitory updates from the new mass culture of the internet to more fundamental changes in subjectivity and politics. Everyday communicative exchanges from blog posts to text messages have widespread effects, effects that not only undermine capacities for democracy but also entrap us in circuits of domination. Quelle: teilweise Klappentext. |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | vii, 153 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780745649696 978-0-7456-4969-6 9780745649702 978-0-7456-4970-2 0745649696 0-7456-4969-6 074564970X 0-7456-4970-X |