{"product_id":"blog-theory-feedback-and-capture-in-the-circuits-of-drive-9780745649702","title":"Blog Theory  Feedback and Capture in the Circuits","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlog Theory 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Blog 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\u003eThe New School University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037644554583,"sku":"9780745649702","price":19.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blog-theory-feedback-and-capture-in-the-circuits-of-drive-9780745649702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}