TY - DATA AU - Lagerkvist, Amanda, TI - Existential media: a media theory of the limit situation SN - 9780190925598 (ebook) : U1 - 302.2301 PY - 2022///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jaspers, Karl, KW - Mass media KW - Philosophy KW - Existentialism N2 - 'Existential Media' revisits existential philosophy through a reappreciation of Karl Jaspers' philosophy, and of his concept of the limit situation: those ultimate moments in life - of loss, crisis and guilt - which we are called upon to seize. Introducing the field of existential media studies in conversation with disability studies, the new materialism and the environmental humanities, the book offers a media theory of the limit situation which brings limits, in all their shapes and forms, onto the radar when we interrogate media UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925567.001.0001 ER -