
Under Suspicion
A Phenomenology of Media
Boris Groys(Author)
Columbia University Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2012
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-231-14618-0 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
368 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-14618-0 (9780231146180)
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Persons
Boris Groys is Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Russian emigre to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munster. His books in English include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond; Art Power; Going Public; and History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Author
Professor fuer Kunstwissenschaft, Philosophie und MedientheorieStaatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung Kahrlruhe
Translation
Associate Professor of German and EnglishUniversity of Missouri
Content
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 Levi-Strauss: Mana; or, the Floating Signifier 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters 12. Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime 13. The Time of Signs 14. Suspicion Is the Medium Notes Index