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Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
Boris Groys
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Description for Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
Hardback. Translator(s): Strathausen, Carsten. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. 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 ... Read more
The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Condition
New
Weight
364 g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231146180
SKU
V9780231146180
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About Boris Groys
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 emigre 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, ... Read more
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