Avoiding the subject : media, culture and the object

✍ Scribed by Pettman, Dominic; Clemens, Justin

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local bus route tell us about the fortification of the West? What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis of contemporary community? And what can unauthorized pictures of Osama Bin Laden tell us about new methods of popular propaganda? These are only some of the thought-provoking questions raised in Avoiding the Subject, which highlights the feedback-loops between philosophy, technology, and politics in today's mediascape.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction. The Influence of Anxiety --
The Aesthetic Object. A Break in Transmission: Art, Appropriation and Accumulation --
The Love Object. Relations with Concrete Others --
The Elusive Object. "Look at the Bunny": The Rabbit as Virtual Totem --
The Media(ted) Object. From September 11 --
The Shared Object. Abandoned Commonplaces: Some Belated Thoughts on Big Brother --
The Moveable Object. Public Transport: Jaunting from the Spaceship Nomad to the HSS Tampa --
The Foreign Object. The Floating Life of Fallen Angels: Unsettled Communities and Hong Kong Cinema --
The Abject Object. Sovereignty, Sacrifice and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Politics --
Conclusion. A Spanner in the Works.

✦ Subjects

Mass media and culture. Mass media -- Social aspects. Mass media. Médias et culture. Médias -- Aspect social. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. The arts. Film, TV and radio. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General. Massamedia. Informatiemaatschappij. Object (filosofie)