
Networked Reenactments
Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell
Katie King(Author)
Duke University Press
Published on 5. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-8223-5072-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national priorities, changing technologies, globalization, and academic capitalism, these industries have sought to reach increasingly differentiated local audiences, even as distributed production practices have made the lack of authorial control increasingly obvious. As Katie King describes in Networked Reenactments, science-styled television-such as the Secrets of Lost Empires series shown on the PBS program Nova-demonstrates how new technical and collaborative skills are honed by television producers, curators, hobbyists, fans, and even scholars. Examining how transmedia storytelling is produced across platforms such as television and the web, she analyzes what this all means for the humanities. What sort of knowledge projects take up these skills, attending to grain of detail, evoking affective intensities, and zooming in and out, representing multiple scales, as well as many different perspectives? And what might this mean for feminist transdisciplinary work, or something sometimes called the posthumanities?
Reviews / Votes
"King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended." - S.E. Vie, CHOICE Magazine "Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice.... King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order... [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period... it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant." - Carol Colatrella, Postmodern Culture "In this lively, thoughtful, and provocative book, Katie King traces the multiple layers and complex intertwined 'communities of practice' that assemble around such diverse discursive sites as television programs, academic classes and conferences, museum exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Networked Reenactments leaves the reader with a heightened sense of the possibilities, as well as the limits and dangers, of contemporary knowledge production, of the ways that we collectively make meanings and understand the heritage of the past in the present."-Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society "It is often the case that I read a book that inspires me to rethink a particular phenomenon. However, it is rare that a book challenges me to think differently about what it means to think. Katie King's Networked Reenactments accomplishes both things. It is, in significant ways, a very tough act to follow." - Joy V. Fuqua (Women's Studies Quarterly) "Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice.... King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order... [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period... it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant." - Carol Colatrella (Postmodern Culture) "A well-researched and convincing series of arguments reminding us that our own esoteric expertise can connect us to many conversations that help us remain relevant in the creation and dissemination of knowledges." - Jeanne L. Gillespie (Journal of American Culture) "King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended." - S.E. Vie (Choice)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
19 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
569 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-5072-9 (9780822350729)
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E-Book
01/2012
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€208.99
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Person
Katie King is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements.
Content
Foreword / Donna Haraway ix
Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1
1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21
2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59
3. TV and the Web Come Together 129
4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203
Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273
Notes 301
Bibliography 335
Index 351
Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1
1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21
2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59
3. TV and the Web Come Together 129
4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203
Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273
Notes 301
Bibliography 335
Index 351