Twenty-First Century Media Aesthetics and the Political

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This collection frames a theory of twenty-first century media in a world where the vast majority of internet users reside in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatised a complex set of technological infrastructures that now shape life in pragmatic and exceptional ways. Cognition, public affect, memory, and the experience of the political have been radically transformed with twenty-first century media networks. Acts of violence become media spectacles in network spaces. Questions of media aesthetics and political affect have taken centre stage in an expanded digital sensorium. This volume revisits and pushes beyond older questions of social and cultural theory and the metamorphoses of the political in this century. Moving beyond classical critical theory, it brings together scholars from media studies, anthropology, cinema, and contemporary art, and provides a comparative landscape and turbulent futures of media aesthetics. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-30
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Antal sidor:267
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009597715

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Ravi Sundaram is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi and is a convenor of the Sarai media programme. His scholarly work has emerged from the intersections of media, architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art in the post-digital era. In addition to editing the Sarai Reader series, Sundaram authored Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (New York and London, 2009) and edited No Limits: Media Studies from India (Delhi, 2015). He is also a co-author of Technopharmacology (Minneapolis, 2022). His essays have been translated into numerous languages across India, Asia, and Europe.

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List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Archaeologies of Twenty-First-Century Media Ravi Sundaram; 1. Bellies and Beasts: On Critical Media Studies Susanna Paasonen; 2. Apprehending of Air-Breath: A Post-COVID Political Aesthetic Bishnupriya Ghosh; Screenshots, Networked Images, and Political Events Ravi Sundaram; The Moment of Violence in an Age of Mass Forensics Francis Cody; Witnessing the State in Its Disappearances: The Forensic Architecture Investigation on the Killing of Tahir Elçi Başak Ertür; Forms of the Left for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh Lotte Hoek; Crying as Political Spectacle: Mythopolitics, Melodrama, and Media Ravi S. Vasudevan; Ten Theses on Celluloid Ashish Rajadhyaksha; About the Contributors; Index.