{"product_id":"life-after-new-media-sarah-kember-9780262527460","title":"Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process","description":"\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Kember, Joanna Zylinska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262527464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262527460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Sarah Kember","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190542692607,"sku":"9780262527460","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c3a2f84-312c-4bb7-8f92-3759d1203493.jpg?v=1690871100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-after-new-media-sarah-kember-9780262527460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}