{"product_id":"life-after-new-media-mediation-as-a-vital-process-9780262527460","title":"Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sarah Kember | Joanna Zylinska\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Life after New Media\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated--subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation--all-encompassing and indivisible--becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a \"cut\" to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of \"doing\" media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46469160042647,"sku":"9780262527460","price":4543.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262527460.jpg?v=1766219169","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/life-after-new-media-mediation-as-a-vital-process-9780262527460","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}