Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in ItIn this utterly original look at our modern "culture of performance," de Zengotita shows how media are creating self-reflective environments, custom made for each of us. From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on an original and astonishing tour of every department of our media-saturated society. The implications are personal and far-reaching at the same time. Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University. "Reading Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated is like spending time with a wild, wired friend-the kind who keeps you up late and lures you outside of your comfort zone with a speed rap full of brilliant notions."-O magazine "A fine roar of a lecture about how the American mind is shaped by (too much) media...."-Washington Post "Deceptively colloquial, intellectually dense...This provocative, extreme and compelling work is a must-read for philosophers of every stripe."-Publishers Weekly |
Contents
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The Cult of the Child | 33 |
Twilight of the Heroes | 81 |
Identity Politics | 129 |
Busy Busy | 175 |
The Fate of Nature | 209 |
Jedermensch ein Übermensch | 249 |
Terror | 279 |
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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It Thomas de Zengotita Limited preview - 2006 |
Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It Thomas de Zengotita No preview available - 2005 |
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