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OverviewSince the public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust, the media's central 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 that boldly challenges the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies Boris Groys (New York University)Publisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9781322529011ISBN 10: 1322529019 Publication Date: 01 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBoris 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 ?migr? to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of M?nster. 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |