Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 [Paperback]

Richard Grusin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0230242529 | ISBN-13: 978-0230242524 | Publication Date: May 11, 2010

In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the pre-mediation of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media work to premediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.

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"Grusin offers an intriguing original theory of media behavior...Recommended."--Choice

About the Author

RICHARD GRUSIN is Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA. He taught previously at The College of William and Mary and the Georgia Institute of Technology. His publications include Remediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay Bolter, 1999).

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (May 11, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0230242529
• ISBN-13: 978-0230242524
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,106,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Richard Grusin is Professor of English at Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He has published numerous chapters and articles and written four books. The first, Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible (Duke, 1991), concerns the influence of European (primarily German) theories of biblical interpretation on the New England Transcendentalists. His more recent work concerns historical, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of technologies of visual representation. With Jay David Bolter he is the author of Remediation: Understanding New Media (MIT, 1999), which sketches out a genealogy of new media, beginning with the contradictory visual logics underlying contemporary digital media. Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge, 2004), focuses on the problematics of visual representation involved in the founding of America's national parks. His fourth book, Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 (forthcoming Palgrave, 2010), argues that in an era of heightened securitization, socially networked US and global media work to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.