Under Suspicion by Boris Groys
The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on politics, culture, society, and conceptions of the self. He relies on different philosophical writings thematizing the gaze of the other, from the theories of Heidegger, Sartre, Mauss, and Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media "states of exception" and their creation of effects of sincerity-a strategy that feeds the media's predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational, further fueling the public's suspicions. Emphasizing the media's production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of "facts," Groys launches a timely study boldly challenging the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview.-
Artaud the Moma
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On Slowness
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The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
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The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
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Art and Posthistory
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Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
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Photography and Its Violations
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Crowds and Democracy
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The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
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Tragic Play
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Afterness
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A Brief History of the Masses
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Sprezzatura
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Things Beyond Resemblance
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Leibnizing
Boris Groys is Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Russian emigre to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munster. His books in English include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond; Art Power; Going Public; and History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231146180 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231146183 |
| Title | Under Suspicion |
| Author | Boris Groys |
| Series | Columbia Themes In Philosophy Social Criticism And The Arts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2012-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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