Phenomenology and Media

Phenomenology and Media
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Publisher : Zeta Books
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 9789731997780
ISBN-13 : 9731997784
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Synopsis Phenomenology and Media by : Paul Majkut

During the first decade of its existence, from 1999 to 2008, the Society for Phenomenology and Media held annual international conferences in San Diego (California), Puebla (Mexico), Krakow (Poland), Helsinki (Finland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Provo (Utah), and Monmouth (Oregon). Papers delivered at these conferences were published in the Society's journal, Glimpse. The current volume is an anthology of essays drawn from the first ten years of Glimpse. From its birth, the Society sought to bridge the gap between contemporary media theory and practice and phenomenological insight. Essays in this anthology include work on digital representation, film, mobile communication, cyberspace, medieval manuscripts, print, radio, the stage, TV, virtual reality, and other media, as well as theoretical papers dealing with media aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and ontology.

Under Suspicion

Under Suspicion
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780231518499
ISBN-13 : 0231518498
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Under Suspicion by : Boris Groys

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.

Looking Through Images

Looking Through Images
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780231547574
ISBN-13 : 0231547579
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Looking Through Images by : Emmanuel Alloa

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory—Aristotle’s concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision—and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices.

Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology

Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9780810105928
ISBN-13 : 0810105926
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology by : Aron Gurwitsch

The articles collected in this volume were written during a period of more than thirty years, the first having been published in 1929, the last in 1961. They are arranged in a systematic, not a chronological order, starting from a few articles mainly concerned with psychological matters and then passing on to phenomenology in the proper sense.

Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity

Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 0742507017
ISBN-13 : 9780742507012
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity by : Jacqueline M. Martinez

Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived-experience of her ethnic heritage, Martinez offers a systematic interrogation of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over generations of assimilation. Combining semiotic and existential phenomenology with Chicana feminism, the author charts new terrain where anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work may be pursued.

Postphenomenology and Media

Postphenomenology and Media
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9781498550154
ISBN-13 : 1498550150
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Postphenomenology and Media by : Yoni Van Den Eede

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of media and mediation theory that can be explored postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of postphenomenology and media.

Conditions of Mediation

Conditions of Mediation
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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1433134705
ISBN-13 : 9781433134708
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Conditions of Mediation by : Tim Markham

Conditions of Mediation brings together the diversity of phenomenological media research - from social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies.

Transformative Phenomenology

Transformative Phenomenology
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780739124116
ISBN-13 : 0739124110
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Transformative Phenomenology by : David Allan Rehorick

Transformative Phenomenology captures the influence of phenomenology and hermeneutics on non-university-based scholar-practitioners who completed their doctoral education in later life, thus blending their workplace experiences with their intellectual interests. Contributions from seasoned university-based scholars also expand our understanding of phenomenological inquiry in fresh ways. The concept of "transformative phenomenology" springs from the long-term teaching and research experiences of David Allan Rehorick and Valerie Malhotra Bentz, the book's co-editors. Book jacket.

An Ethico-Phenomenology of Digital Art Practices

An Ethico-Phenomenology of Digital Art Practices
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0367677962
ISBN-13 : 9780367677961
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis An Ethico-Phenomenology of Digital Art Practices by : GIUSEPPE. TORRE

This study is concerned with phenomenology and ethics of digital art practices and with those issues pertaining to the ecosystem performer-technology-audience. Replete with examples of artwork and practices, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies, art and technology.

50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology

50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 619
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ISBN-10 : 9780810141162
ISBN-13 : 0810141167
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Synopsis 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology by : Gail Weiss

Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences of marginalization, oppression, and power in order to identify and transform common experiences of injustice that render “the familiar” a site of oppression for many. In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, leading scholars present fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduce newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected. By centering historically marginalized perspectives, the chapters in this book breathe new life into the phenomenological tradition and reveal its ethical, social, and political promise. This volume will be an invaluable resource for teaching and research in continental philosophy; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; critical race theory; disability studies; cultural studies; and critical theory more generally.