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... and designers understand the current technological application culture. An earlier version was available much earlier online and is now published in printed form in Bloomsbury’s International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics series. As a nod toward material and media history, the book borrows its name from...

...) as a site for attending to that authority. The author argues that these developments in public culture can be linked to changes to the media environment since the end of the Cold War, which include but are not limited to widespread digital uptake. The article engages work investigating prospects...

.... The findings underline the significance of representations of the new super- rich as devices through which the media accomplish the global circulation of an upper- middle- class repertoire of cultural capital, which is used both to police shifting class boundaries and to establish a legitimate preserve...

... and the horror of contemporary media culture. Finally, the article reflects on Virilio’s work on technodesertification and disappearance and Stiegler’s theory of the destruction of the delay of desire in the immediacy of drive through attention capture to show how screen culture annihilates the thickness...

...Jussi Parikka This introduction to the special section on mediated geologies contextualizes the articles that follow within recent discussions concerning cultural politics of the environment, ecological contexts of contemporary media, and debates concerning the Anthropocene. The special section...

..., and their ambivalent articulation of relationships of control, training, care, violence, and love—a protopolitics evident in imaginative play. And, in postnatural media culture, the toy animal has migrated to digital habitats, offering an alternative animal perspective on questions of artificial intelligence...

...Garry Whannel This paper examines the transformation of news as a cultural commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and circulation speed of media production. It introduces the concept of vortextuality and illustrates the vortextual effect with reference to the coverage...

... in contemporary culture and how viewers appropriate, or not, the particular lifestyles that are communicated across popular media forms. Bourdieu first used the term cultural intermediary in his book Distinction (1984) and related it to a new fraction of the ruptured middle class. Such a group gained...

... showing how they formerly have been otherwise. The backdrop to many contemporary reflections about digital archives is a wider set of concerns about the displacement of political and cultural contexts that informed early online participatory cultures. This narrative has animated media theory since...

... ). As Gillian Rose (2012 : xvii) put it, “Images are embedded in the social world and are only comprehensible when that embedding is taken into account.” This article is influenced by this tradition, returning to its core structural method of picking apart the cultural politics of a media image while...

... and background. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 photography phenomenology digital culture aesthetics narcissism The default setting of contemporary media studies is empiricism—an empiricism deferred through theory necessarily supported by “practice,” or theory grounded in data...

... manufacturing and preservation, and thermal infrared imaging, thermal control is shown to be essential to the conversion of geological matter into circulations of media on a mass scale. In each of these cases, cultural assumptions and imperatives—the drive toward purity, the development of standardization...

.... 2002 . Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy . Ithaca : Cornell University Press . Dean J. 2005 . “ Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics .” Cultural Politics , 1 ( 1 ): 51 – 74 . Debray R. 1996 . Media Manifestos...

... and local. We end by noting the relevance of the ideas of Guy Debord, with his focus on the construction of situations, the use of technology, media of communication and cultural forms to promote a revolution of everyday life. © BERG 2005 PRINTED IN THE UK 2005 It has been just over a decade since...

... of the brand as sense-making tool under neoliberalism might be reconfigured as something that might bridge the gap between media consumer and creative industry worker. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 brands cultural studies labor New Zealand film industry In 2010 Warner Bros...

..., in a way that can be seen to undermine the new “face culture” of social media platforms like Facebook. The practices that characterize this “deep vernacular web” are anti- and impersonal rather than personal, ephemeral and aleatory rather than persistent and predictable, collective rather than individual...

...Chris Hables Gray; Ángel J. Gordo There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low...

... of the media, and that of the failure of the Left in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The article looks at the rise of “Trumpism” and the new brand of white nationalist and misogynistic culture of the so-called alt-right in its historical context to show how it is consistent with but also distinguished...

... . Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses . New York : Peter Lang . Parikka Jussi . 2012 . “ New Materialism as Media Theory: Medianatures and Dirty Matter .” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9 , no. 1 : 95 – 100 . Parikka Jussi . 2013 . “ Insects...

...: cultural politics ; cultural media histories ; the emotional excess ( jouissance, petit à ) of cultural politics; and the deep play mode of aesthetic judgement formed between the practical and ethical, between political economy and expressive art (including political drama), and between individual self...