Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media Contributor(s): Groys, Boris (Author), Strathausen, Carsten (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231146183 ISBN-13: 9780231146180 Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2012 Click for more in this series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Art - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
Dewey: 302.230 |
LCCN: 2011047167 |
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" L (0.79 lbs) 232 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2012 |
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Publisher Description: The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on politics, culture, society, and conceptions of the self. He relies on different philosophical writings thematizing the gaze of the other, from the theories of Heidegger, Sartre, Mauss, and Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media "states of exception" and their creation of effects of sincerity--a strategy that feeds the media's predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational, further fueling the public's suspicions. Emphasizing the media's production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of "facts," Groys launches a timely study boldly challenging the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview. |
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