Under Suspicion - A Phenomenology of Media

Informationen zum Autor 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 émigré 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. Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: Boris Grois, Groys, Boris Groys, Boris (Professor fur Kunstwissenschaft Groys, Groys Boris
• Assisted by: Carsten Strathausen (Translation), Carsten (Associate Professor of German and English Strathausen (Translation), Strathausen Carsten (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780231146180
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14618-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts; Columbia Themes in Philosophy; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism