{"product_id":"the-digital-banal-9780231184281","title":"The Digital Banal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the “digital banal,” not noticing the affective and political novelty of our relationship to digital media. \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Banal \u003c\/i\u003erecovers the shrouded disturbances that can help us recognize and antagonize our media environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZara Dinnen clearly and forcefully articulates the importance of her new concept, the \"digital banal,\" as well as the way it plays out across multiple social and aesthetic practices. Nothing could be more fundamentally important than the everyday, now utterly embedded in the digital. The Digital Banal empowers us not just to see ourselves as we now are but to become active participants in everyday digital life. -- Lori Emerson, University of Colorado, Boulder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Thinking with the Digital Banal\u003cbr\u003e1. David Fincher’s Grammar of Code\u003cbr\u003e2. Jonathan Lethem’s and Mark Amerika’s Common Writing\u003cbr\u003e3. Being Social in a Postdigital World in \u003ci\u003eCatfish \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Twenty Years of Californian Ideology in \u003ci\u003eThe Bug \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Refresh, Update, Wait, or, Living with the Digital Banal in \u003ci\u003eChronic City \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRefresh Refresh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Speculating on the Real Estate of the Digital Banal\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: After the Digital Banal\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400322982231,"sku":"9780231184281","price":69.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231184281.jpg?v=1730470385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-digital-banal-9780231184281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}