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"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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Author:   Boris Groys (Professor für Kunstwissenschaft, Philosophie und Medientheorie, Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung Kahrlruhe) ,  Carsten Strathausen (Associate Professor of German and English, University of Missouri)
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9780231146180

ISBN 10:   0231146183
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

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

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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.

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