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Existential media : a media theory of the limit situation / Amanda Lagerkvist.

By: Material type: Computer fileComputer filePublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780190925598 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2301
Online resources: Summary: '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.
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'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.

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