Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
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Main Author: Groys, Boris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2012
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
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Since the public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust, the media's central 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 post
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (234 p)
ISBN:9780231518499

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