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Plato's Cave

Television and Its Discontents

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

AvJohn O'Neill

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In this volume a double strategy of framing television as both a prop and a body implant is used. McLuhan first saw television as a body with potential for global community. The author develops McLuhan's vision with more attention to political economy, body politics and bio-technology.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-04-30
Vikt349 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Bodies
Antal sidor224
Upplaga2
FörlagHampton Press
ISBN9781572733909

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Preface, Capital TV. Political economy and the mediation of desire. Introduction: Cave Culture and Tele-vision: Opening and Closing the American Mind. Looking into the Media: The Technology of Revelation and Subversion. The Corporate Mediation of Private Lives and Public Apathy. The Political Economy of Narcissism: Some issues on the Loss of Famlly Eros. Women as a Medium of Exchange: Defamillzation and the Feminization of Law in Early and Late Capitalism. Political Communication: The Corporate Agenda and the Legitimation Problem. Life-Worlds and the mediation of Bio-Power. Tele-vision and the Nationalist Platitude: Reflections on the Canada/USA Watch. Bio-Communication: Empire and Biopower. Media-culture and the Specular Functions of Ethnicity, Fashion and Tourism. Media AIDS: Communicable Disease, Sexual Ideology, and Global Panic. Televidlo Ergo Sum: Some Hypotheses on the Specular Functions of the Media. Conclusion: Reflections on the Day After Television. Author Index. Subject Index.