Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia

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Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality and exploitation? Is the new media landscape creating a dangerous distraction from the climate crisis? Connecting the work of critical postmedia studies to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of schizoanalysis, this book marks a bifurcatory shift in the radical theory on technology. A range of critical perspectives are explored by international authors who engage with ecology, ecosophy, climate change, the postmedia condition, and the Anthropocene. Answering the above questions, editors Joff P.N. Bradley, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, and Manoj N.Y. frame the volume's chapters as urgent responses to unbridled technological advance and impending climate disaster. Using ecological philosophy as a core focus, the volume analyses new media, technologies of the self, the power of algorithms, and technologies of resistance, to outline a materialist paradigm capable of addressing crises across the cultural, biological, and informational spheres. Through contesting economies built on desire and destruction and questioning the infiltration of capitalism in all of its spheres of negative influence, the editors review recent technological developments in light of Deleuze and Guattari's earlier seminal theories to make bold new connections and critiques in the study of media, philosophy, and the environment.

Joff P. N. Bradley is Professor of English and Philosophy in the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Communication at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. Manoj N.Y. is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Felix Guattari once pointed out the promise of a post-media era on the basis of his experiences from the 1970s through to his death in 1992, involving pirate radio, emergent forms of interconnectivity like Minitel and computer-assisted design, hypertext, and the fledgling world wide web. This volume contributes substantially to the renewal of this legacy. * Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University, Canada * This volume brings together an invigorating series of essays by international scholars on the legacy of Guattari's concept of post-media. In a digital dystopia with far greater reach than last century's mass media, this stimulating book raises the urgent question - what happened to the schizo-revolutionary promise of communications technologies? * Jill Marsden, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, University of Bolton, UK * This stunning line-up of scholars in media and Deleuze-Guattari studies propose significant creative perspectives on sociocultural and schizocultural post-media analysis. By offering readings in and of the future through glimpses of the present, they think beyond current control societies to envisage new subjectivities and tools for diverse modes of action and resistance in societies to come. * Charles J. Stivale, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French, Wayne State University, USA * Concepts and vocabulary have to be invented to keep pace with the catastrophic and rapid changes in technology. Drawing upon diverse and global examples of technologies, this book offers a powerful and urgently needed analysis of the way technology, particularly in media, can be understood through the framework of schizoanalysis. * Sundar Sarukkai, Formerly professor of philosophy, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India *