Premediation

Affect and Mediality After 9/11

By: R. Grusin

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Paperback | 1 May 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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 worked to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.

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'In this book, Richard Grusin demonstrates why he is one of the leading media and cultural theorists of our time. Lucid and convincing throughout, Premediation interrogates our mediatized futures, today. It is essential reading.'

- Andrew Hoskins, University of Nottingham, UK

'Premediation offers an important counterpoint to the hegemony of futurism, a critical analysis of how visions and narratives of the future require more than a second glance. Grusin remediates his well known work on media, technology and time through an affective political sphere; one that, he argues, is cultivating an uncanny feeling of inevitability.'

- Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada

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Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Remediation after 9/11	p. 1
Brief notes on method	p. 4
Remediating 9/11	p. 8
ôAfter 9/11ö	p. 8
Remediating 9/11	p. 11
9/11: theorization or mediatization?	p. 16
ôWe are all Americansö	p. 23
The new normal	p. 25
The emergence of premediated time	p. 33
Premediation	p. 38
Remediation and premediation	p. 38
The media regime of pre-emptive war	p. 41
Autopoiesis and the liveness of futurity	p. 50
From virtual reality to the reality of the virtual	p. 57
Affect, Mediality, and Abu Ghraib	p. 62
The trouble with Abu Ghraib	p. 62
Remediating pornography?	p. 67
Unknown knowns	p. 69
Mediality	p. 72
Affectivity	p. 77
Torture and pornography	p. 82
Transmitting affect	p. 86
The Affective Life of Media	p. 90
Cyborgs	p. 90
Feedback loops	p. 97
Affective computing	p. 109
Mediators	p. 118
The Anticipation of Security	p. 122
Premediation and securitization	p. 122
Anticipatory gestures	p. 126
Mediaphilia	p. 131
Premediation and politics	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 143
Beyond 9/11	p. 143
Natural things	p. 144
Economic things	p. 147
Social things	p. 151
Notes	p. 156
Works Cited	p. 180
Index	p. 189
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