Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 160 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781802621358
Content:
Technologies re-abstract trauma in complex ways. Approaching trauma in its cultural forms, this book considers how technologies of trauma in the guise of cultural artefacts presents moral and ethical challenges from the vernacular of storytelling and witnessing to livestreaming of terror today.
Content:
Cover -- Technologies of Trauma -- Technologies of Trauma: Cultural Formations Over Time -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction: Mediated Trauma and Modernity -- The Transfiguration of Trauma -- Producing the Subject of Trauma -- Eurocentric Master Narrative -- Bibliography -- 2. Technologies of Trauma: Uncoupling the Incestuous Relationship Between Technology and Trauma -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Genealogy of Technological Witnessing: From the Sensorial to the Aesthetic -- Trauma and Mediated Memory as 'Event' -- Trauma - Betwixt the Spectacular and the Everyday -- Bibliography -- 3. Crossing the Human Limits: The Technologies of Wounding -- Abstract -- Wound, Wounded and Witnessing -- Wounding as Residing in the Interstices of the Inarticulate -- Virtual Witnessing to Sharing Platforms -- Post-Digital Communion with Trauma -- The Digital Economy and Distribution of Trauma -- Bibliography -- 4. Orientalism of Suffering: Trauma and the Production of Alterity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Crises of Suffering Scholarship -- Mediated Suffering and Technologies of Trauma -- The Figure of the Abject Other -- Coloniality and Modes of Knowing -- Dislocated Modernity and Elongated Coloniality -- The Shifting Axis of Suffering -- Note -- Bibliography -- 5. The Social Psychology of Hate Online: From Cyberbullying to Gaming -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Hate and the Architecture of the Internet -- The Banalization of Hate -- Digital Violence and 'Gamification' of Hate -- Note -- Bibliography -- 6. Algorithmic Logic of Black Death: Re-reading Black Virtuality Online -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Brutality, Blackness and Death in Excess -- Theorizing the Hermeneutics of 'Black' Horrific -- Technologies of Trauma and the 'Repeat' Mode -- Disembodied Black Consciousness and the 'Politics of Refusal' -- Notes.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781802621365
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ibrahim, Yasmin Technologies of trauma Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022 ISBN 9781802621365
Language:
English
