Half a semester, 17 pages of hand-written notes, and many shouts of "stop making up words!" later - I have finally finished this book!
Don't get me wrong, I would say it was worth it.
Yves Citton plunges in the deep end and rips into the ways in which media structures our society, our behaviours, our politics, our worlds, our ontologies, our epistemologies. It's a real roller-coaster ride this one. It ties into questions currently circulating globally which concern themselves with: the role of media in politics (e.g. certain nations influencing in the elections of other nations), to what extent we become apathetic to our environment because of technology, and are algorithms really taking over the world? (the answer: kinda??)
To be honest, a lot of this went over my ahead, not un-entirely because I had to rush through some parts of this in order to read it in time to hand in a book review for class. Citton also cites every post-ideology you can think of: post-modernism, post-structuralism, post-media, post-advert... Nonetheless, even though I suspect I missed heaps, I also gleaned a lot of fascinating information about the dynamics between the media, the analogical world, human beings, politics, the psyche...
Would recommend this book to anyone interested in the META role/existence of media albeit I would also recommend noting down a glossary as you go along because Citton has a habit of inventing new words every couple of pages and it's hard to keep track.