Beyond Globalization - Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices

Informationen zum Autor Aneesh, A. Klappentext Does living in a globally networked society mean that we are moving toward a single! homogenous world culture? Or! are we headed for clashes between center and periphery! imperial and subaltern! Western and non-Western! First and Third World? The interdisciplinary essays in this collection present us with another possibilityâ€"that new media will lead to new kinds of """"worldmaking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Making of Worlds1. Global Media and Culture2. Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production 3. Apocalypse by Subtraction: Late Capitalism and the Trauma of Scarcity 4. These Great Urbanist Games: New Babylon and Second Life 5. Format Television and Israeli Telediplomacy 6. Mediating “Neutrality”: Latino Diasporic Films 7. Killing Me Softly: Brazilian Film and Bare Life 8. The Man, the Corpse, and the Icon in Motorcycle Diaries: Utopia, Pleasure, and a New Revolutionary Imagination9. Saudades on the Amazon: Toward a Soft Sweet Name for Involution 10. States of Distraction: Media Art Strategies Within Public Conditions 11. Bio Art Notes About the ContributorsIndex

Product details

• Authors: A. (EDT)/ Hall Aneesh
• Assisted by: A. Aneesh (Editor), Lane Hall (Editor), Patrice Petro (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2011
• EAN: 9780813551548
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5154-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Directions in Internationa; New Directions in Internationa
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries