回避主体：媒介、文化和客体-英文版.pdf

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Clemens | Pettman
Justin Clemens lectures in the Department
of English, Deakin University, Australia. His
publications include The Mundiad (Black Inc,
2004) and The Romanticism of Contemporary
Theory (Ashgate, 2003). He is the co-editor,
with Oliver Feltham, of Alain Badiou’s Infinite
What can Roger Rabbit tell Thought (Continuum, 2003).
us about the Second Gulf
Dominic Pettman is currently teaching
War? What can a woman within the Masters of Digital Media program
married to the Berlin Wall at the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. He has
tell us about post-human- held previous appointments in the English
Department of the University of Geneva, and
ism and inter-subjectivity? the Media and Culture Department of the
Avoiding the Subject
What can DJ Shadow tell us University of Amsterdam. He is the author of
After y: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion
about the end of history?
(SUNY Press, 2002).
What can our local bus
route tell us about the fortifi- Cover illustration: Merritt Symes
cation of the West? What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis
of munity? And what can unauthorized
pictures of Osama bin Laden tell us about new methods of popu-
lar propaganda?
These are only some of the thought-provoking questions raised in
this lively and erudite collection of inter-related essays on the
postmillennial mediascape. Focusing on the neglected signifi-
cance of the object within today’s works, Avoiding
the Subject extends the formal possibilities of cultural criticism Avoiding the Subject
by highlighting feedback loops between philosophy, technology,
and politics. Students and teachers of visual culture, critical MEDIA, CULTURE AND THE OBJECT
theory, cultural studies, film theory, and new media will find
a wealth of ideas and insights in this fresh approach to the
electronic environment.
Justin Clemens | Dominic Pettman

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