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Network Aesthetics

Patrick Jagoda

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  • 304 sidor
  • 2016
The term network is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the words ubiquity has also made it a clich, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the networks role as a way for people to construct and manage their worldand their view of themselves. Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up space for participatory and improvisational thought. Contributing to fields as diverse as literary criticism, digital studies, media theory, and American studies, Network Aesthetics brilliantly demonstrates that, in todays world, networks are something that can not only be known, but also felt, inhabited, and, crucially, transformed.
  • Författare: Patrick Jagoda
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780226346519
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-03-22
  • Förlag: University of Chicago Press