Under Suspicion : : A Phenomenology of Media /

Under Suspicion : : A Phenomenology of Media / / Boris Groys.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Groys, Boris,
TeilnehmendeR:
Strathausen, Carsten.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator 's Preface: Dead Man Thinking
  • Introduction
  • I. Submedial Space
  • 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs
  • 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception
  • 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt
  • 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity
  • 5. The Gaze of the Other
  • 6. The Medium Becomes the Message
  • 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial
  • II. The Economy of Suspicion
  • 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water
  • 9. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Mana ; or, the Floating Signifi er
  • 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun
  • 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters
  • 12. Jean-François Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime
  • 13. The Time of Signs
  • 14. Suspicion Is the Medium
  • Notes
  • Index

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