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Medialogies : reading reality in the age of inflationary media
- Title
- Medialogies : reading reality in the age of inflationary media / David R. Castillo and William Egginton.
- Author
- Castillo, David R., 1967-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Additional Authors
- Egginton, William, 1969-
- Description
- viii, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars, combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis, relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work is crucial to understanding reality in the information age. - Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Political theory and contemporary philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Political theory and contemporary philosophy.
- Alternative Title
- Reading reality in the age of inflationary media
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-253) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1 Inflationary Media -- 1. Editing Reality -- 2. A New Perspective -- 3. Theatricality -- 4. Commodity-Spectacles -- 5. How to Turn Things into Copies, and Copies into Things -- pt. 2 Fundamentals -- 6. Ineffable Me -- 7. Foundations -- 8. Freedom for Sale -- 9. Crime Shows -- 10. Political Theater -- 11. Monumental Screens -- 12. The New Fundamentals -- pt. 3 Exclusions -- 13. Terrifying Vistas of Reality -- 14. Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists -- 15. The Global Undead -- 16. Dark Mirrors -- 17. Apocalypse Then and Now -- pt. 4 In Defense of Being -- 18. Minor Strategies -- 19. Stranger than Fiction -- 20. Truth and Lies in Life and Art -- 21. Staging the Event -- 22. The Architecture of Mourning -- 23. Occupy and Resist -- 24. Empire of Solitude.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1361
- ISBN
- 9781628923605
- 1628923601
- 9781628923599
- 1628923598
- OCLC
- 957546454
- Author
- Castillo, David R., 1967- author.
- Title
- Medialogies : reading reality in the age of inflationary media / David R. Castillo and William Egginton.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Political theory and contemporary philosophyPolitical theory and contemporary philosophy.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-253) and index.
- Added Author
- Egginton, William, 1969- author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1361