Excommunication - Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation

Автор: Alexander R Galloway

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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Always connect - that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media ce...

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Автор

Alexander R Galloway

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

216

EAN

9780226925226

ISBN

0226925226

Enbook ID

02428140

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

292

Размери

142 x 217 x 15

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Always connect - that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself - those messages that state: "There will be no more messages"? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself - instances they call excommunication. In three linked essays, Excommunication pursues this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today-mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway's classification scheme by examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Finally, Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and communication, Excommunication offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present condition.

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