{"product_id":"blog-theory-feedback-and-capture-in-the-circuits-of-drive-hardback-9780745649696","title":"Blog Theory; Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive (Hardback) 9780745649696","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlog Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFeedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJodi Dean (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745649696, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 July 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e140 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.331 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dean is asking the right questions about online life … We certainly need vigilance and critique to help us resist dotcom charisma, and no one is fiercer or smarter than Dean on this front.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article.php?type=\u0026amp;id=837\u0026amp;fulltext=1\u0026amp;media=\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Jodi Dean’s \u003ci\u003eBlog Theory\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its proximate subject the eponymous blog—and its living death … what is offered is both simple and, oddly enough, also hopeful.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"If Ballard invited the 20th century viewer to witness their own mass atrocity exhibition, we now have the update for the 21st century: Jodi Dean's demolition job of the Internet as we know it. With \u003ci\u003eBlog Theory\u003c\/i\u003e we can finally terminate the hype of blogging and seriously engage the deeply distracted condition of the networked present. The incestuous relationship between journalism and bloggers is exposed to make way for critical reflections on techniques of self-management for our all-too-fragile identities.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeert Lovink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlog Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is refreshingly free of received ideas about the wonderful new world of media. Jodi Dean manages the difficult art of being critical of new media without becoming a cranky curmudgeon. She uses psychoanalytic concepts to produce a synoptic view of the decline of symbolic efficiency under communicative capitalism, and the way the blogosphere participates in this dissipation of the totems and tokens of what we once thought of as the public sphere. She clears the way for imagining the politics of media by other means.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark, \u003ci\u003eNew School University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlog Theory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to newly emerging social network platforms and applications.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Set against the background of the economic crisis wrought by neoliberalism, the book engages with recent work in contemporary media theory as well as with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj ?i?ek. Through these engagements, Dean defends the provocative thesis that reflexivity in complex networks is best understood via the psychoanalytic notion of the drives. She contends, moreover, that reading networks in terms of the drives enables us to grasp their real, human dimension, that is, the feelings and affects that embed us in the system.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In remarkably clear and lucid prose, Dean links seemingly trivial and transitory updates from the new mass culture of the internet to more fundamental changes in subjectivity and politics. Everyday communicative exchangesÑfrom blog posts to text messagesÑhave widespread effects, effects that not only undermine capacities for democracy but also entrap us in circuits of domination.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Blog Settings 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Death of Blogging 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Whatever Blogging 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Affective Networks 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 144\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407320510744,"sku":"9780745649696","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745649696.jpg?v=1784161509","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blog-theory-feedback-and-capture-in-the-circuits-of-drive-hardback-9780745649696","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}