Screen LibraryPremediation: Affect and mediality after 9/11
In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the 'pre-mediation' of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media worked to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity,...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230275270 |
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In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the 'pre-mediation' of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media worked to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear. 'In this book, Richard Grusin demonstrates why he is one of the leading media and cultural theorists of our time. Lucid and convincing throughout, Premediation interrogates our mediatized futures, today. It is essential reading.' - Andrew Hoskins, University of Nottingham, UK 'Premediation offers an important counterpoint to the hegemony of futurism, a critical analysis of how visions and narratives of the future require more than a second glance. Grusin remediates his well known work on media, technology and time through an affective political sphere; one that, he argues, is cultivating an |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 208 p. |
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9780230242517 9780230275270 : 0230275273 : |
| CLC: | G206.3 |
| Contents: | Introduction Remediating 9/11 Premediation Affect, Mediality, and Abu Ghraib The Affective Life of Media The Anticipation of Security Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index. |