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Médiarchie

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Nous nous imaginons vivre dans des démocraties, alors que nous vivons dans des médiarchies. Car, plus que les peuples ou les individus, ce sont les publics formés par les médias qui sont les substrats de nos régimes politiques. Même lorsque nous dénonçons le " pouvoir des médias ", nous n'entrevoyons qu'à peine à quel point ceux-ci conditionnent nos perceptions, nos pensées et nos actions, individuelles et collectives. En reliant des courants de pensée étrangers à nos traditions critiques et universitaires, Yves Citton renouvelle considérablement notre boîte à outils conceptuelle et s'applique tournevis en main à recadrer nos débats. De l'écoféminisme à la sociologie des réseaux, des algorithmes de l'apprentissage profond à l'archéologie des infrastructures, de la démonologie au design d'ingénierie, du médiactivisme au médiartivisme, le parcours proposé élargit notre horizon théorique et notre imaginaire politique en explorant d'autres manières de penser les " médias ". Nous ne saurions échapper aux conditionnements opérés sur nous, entre nous, à travers nous et en nous par nos médiarchies. Ce livre espère toutefois nous aider à mieux percevoir ces conditionnements, à mieux les concevoir – et à moins les subir. Yves Citton est professeur de littérature et media à l'Université Paris 8, après avoir enseigné à l'Université Grenoble Alpes. Il co-dirige la revue Multitudes et a notamment publié, aux Éditions Amsterdam, Mythocratie (2010) et Zazirocratie (2011), ainsi que, au Seuil, Renverser l'insoutenable (2012) et Pour une écologie de l'attention (2014).

361 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 7, 2017

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Yves Citton

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Yves Citton is professor of Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis and executive director of the Ecole Universitaire de Recheche ArTeC. He is the author of a dozen books, and has taught for 13 years at the Université Grenoble Alpes and for 12 years in the department of French and Italian of the University of Pittsburgh, PA. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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November 8, 2018
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.
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