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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262305358
An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New Media , Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects—computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles—to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated—subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation—all-encompassing and indivisible—becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a “cut” to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of “doing” media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262305358
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8796.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262305358