Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11

by Grusin, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780230242517
• ISBN10: 0230242510
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the pre-mediation of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media work to premediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.

Author Biography

RICHARD GRUSIN is Professor and Chair, Department of English, Wayne State University, USA. His publications include Remediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay Bolter, 1999) and Culture, Technology and the Creation of America's National Parks (2004). He has also lectured widely on new media theory.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Remediation after 9/11	p. 1
Brief notes on method	p. 4
Remediating 9/11	p. 8
"After 9/11"	p. 8
Remediating 9/11	p. 11
9/11: theorization or mediatization?	p. 16
"We are all Americans"	p. 23
The new normal	p. 25
The emergence of premediated time	p. 33
Premediation	p. 38
Remediation and premediation	p. 38
The media regime of pre-emptive war	p. 41
Autopoiesis and the liveness of futurity	p. 50
From virtual reality to the reality of the virtual	p. 57
Affect, Mediality, and Abu Ghraib	p. 62
The trouble with Abu Ghraib	p. 62
Remediating pornography?	p. 67
Unknown knowns	p. 69
Mediality	p. 72
Affectivity	p. 77
Torture and pornography	p. 82
Transmitting affect	p. 86
The Affective Life of Media	p. 90
Cyborgs	p. 90
Feedback loops	p. 97
Affective computing	p. 109
Mediators	p. 118
The Anticipation of Security	p. 122
Premediation and securitization	p. 122
Anticipatory gestures	p. 126
Mediaphilia	p. 131
Premediation and politics	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 143
Beyond 9/11	p. 143
Natural things	p. 144
Economic things	p. 147
Social things	p. 151
Notes	p. 156
Works Cited	p. 180
Index	p. 189
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program

Currently unavailable

×

Digital License

You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.

More details can be found here.