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Media on a Political Level: Stasis and Polemos

Media on a Political Level: Stasis and Polemos

Arabatzis, Stavros

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3658487992
ISBN13: 9783658487997
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 3 2025
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
The volume presented here seeks to shift the concept of media from its traditional domain to the political field. Media are not merely to be understood as an intellectual or aesthetic game (communicative, linguistic, written, technical, profit-rational, instrumental, hermeneutic, or mathematical-informational), but rather as a political state of emergency. This media theory therefore addresses the question of why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism (Adorno/Horkheimer). According to our thesis, this is a medial question--one that arises from the original inverse setting (kata-strophen) of media--and it subsequently determines their historical, societal, social, and political development. The main thesis of this book is that we are no longer dealing with media as a theoretical, technical-aesthetic, or informational game. Rather, we are dealing with a political state of emergency, where the issue is truth or falsehood within the polis and its prevailing laws. These are two fundamentally different domains--intellectual and aesthetic play on the one hand, and political emergency on the other--that must not be confused, because the latter is existential and concerns life or death.

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