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Technopharmacology

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Technopharmacology
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Joshua Neves
By (author) Aleena Chia
By (author) Susanna Paasonen
By (author) Ravi Sundaram
SeriesIn Search of Media
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127
ISBN/Barcode 9781517914158
ClassificationsDewey:615.1
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 7 b&w illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 21 June 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals Being on social media, having pornography or an internet addiction, consciousness hacking, and mundane smartness initiatives are practices embodied in a similar manner to the swallowing of a pill. Such close relations of media technologies to pharmaceuticals and pharmacology is the focus of this book. Technopharmacology is a modest call to expand media theoretical inquiry by attending to the biological, neurological, and pharmacological dimensions of media and centers on emergent affinities between big data and big pharma.

Author Biography

Joshua Neves is associate professor of film studies at Concordia University, and author of Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy. Aleena Chia is lecturer in media, communications, and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she researches creative cultures in game development and Silicon Valley spiritualities. Susanna Paasonen is professor of media studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and author of Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media. Ravi Sundaram is professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He is author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism and editor of No Limits: Media Studies from India.

Reviews

"Technopharmacology overturns how we think about the relation between media technologies and pharmaceutical agents. The book offers compelling new perspectives on the ways in which the agency of media oscillates between toxin and intoxicant, while drug technologies generate new infrastructures of communication."-Thomas Lamarre, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. "Technopharmacology hits a sore but absolutely crucial spot: the relation between the pharmaceutical industry and digital media, the pharmacologization of media and the mediatization of pharmacology. A must-read to find new means of orientation in the chaotic post-pandemic world which Big Pharma and Platform Capital increasingly dominate."-Tiziana Terranova, Professor of Cultural Studies and Digital Media, University of Naples "L'Orientale"