Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (Mit Press) (USED)

Description: Product Description : Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (Mit Press) An argument for a shift in understanding new mediafrom a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediationIn 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 objectscomputers smart phones iPods Kindlesto an examination of the interlocking technical social and biological processes of mediation Doing so they say reveals that life itself can be understood as mediatedsubject to the same processes of reproduction transformation flattening and patenting undergone by other media formsBy Kember and Zylinskas account the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities Mediationallencompassing and indivisiblebecomes 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 mediaenacted 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( it is an used product )

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