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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......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction. The Influence of Anxiety......Page 12
1 The Aesthetic Object. A Break in Transmission: Art, Appropriation and Accumulation......Page 26
2 The Love Object. Relations with Concrete Others......Page 40
3 The Elusive Object. βLook at the Bunnyβ: The Rabbit as Virtual Totem......Page 60
4 The Media(ted) Object. From September 11 to the 7-11: Propaganda and the Internetβs War on Terrorism......Page 84
5 The Shared Object. Abandoned Commonplaces: Some Belated Thoughts on Big Brother......Page 96
6 The Moveable Object. Public Transport: Jaunting from the Spaceship Nomad to the HSS Tampa......Page 112
7 The Foreign Object. The Floating Life of Fallen Angels: Unsettled Communities and Hong Kong Cinema......Page 132
8 The Abject Object. Sovereignty, Sacrifice and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Politics......Page 148
Conclusion. A Spanner in the Works......Page 180
Notes......Page 186
Index......Page 213
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