Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect
About the Book Series
A platform for new works devoted to exploring contemporary crises and drawing on and developing different critical traditions – such as neo-Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, poststructuralism, critical discourse analysis, and ecological and environmental approaches – Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect presents theoretically-informed and politically-engaged studies that share a fundamental concern with interrogating the discrepancies between the potentialities and rhetorics of new technologies and their actual utilization in the service of hegemonic interests. Whether with respect to 21st century capitalism and new political economies of culture, global mediascapes and digital economies, urban transformation and militarization, the proliferation of consumption and media sites and spaces, biotechnologies and the body, or the exploitation and destruction of Nature, the series welcomes theoretically-driven explorations of the technological and mediatized future, and the cultural manifestations of neoliberalism.
Media Realities in Global Perspective: A West-Eastern Divan
1st Edition
Edited
By Markus Heidingsfelder, Yan Bo, Holger Briel
November 17, 2025
Media Realities in Global Perspective is an intellectual intervention into today’s most urgent debates about truth, perception, and power. Including essays by journalists, artists, philosophers, and theorists, this interdisciplinary volume exposes how mass media—old and new—shape not just what we ...
Social Media Frenzies: Digitalized Agitation and Social Change
1st Edition
By Diana Stypinska
November 06, 2025
This book examines the relation between agitation and social change in the digital context. Focusing on the phenomenon commonly referred to as 'social media storms', it conceptualizes digitalized agitation, reflecting upon its transformative potential and socio-political effects. Situating its ...
How Digital Social Life Matters: New Frames for Social and Cultural Analysis
1st Edition
By David Toews
January 07, 2025
Focusing on two concepts that were central to modernism and continue to be important, albeit in different ways, this book explores the nature of the simple and the complex, and the relationship that exists between them. With attention to trends in big data and digital media, society, politics, and ...
Predicted Humans: Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking
1st Edition
By Simona Chiodo
June 14, 2024
Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to ...
Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama: Serial Connections
1st Edition
By John Lynch
September 25, 2023
Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama: Serial Connections is a consideration of some of the key examples of serial television drama available via transnational streaming platforms in recent times. Through the individual works examined, the book exemplifies the ways in which aesthetics, ...
The Neoliberal Imagination: Politics, Aesthetics, and Economics in the Evolution of Hyper-Industrial Capitalism
1st Edition
By Ross Abbinnett
April 29, 2022
This book presents a polemical account of the historical development of the neoliberal imagination. Inspired by the thought of Frederic Jameson, Bernard Stiegler, and Timothy Morton, it argues that the evolution of virtual and information technologies has transformed the ideological imaginary of ...
The Thought of Bernard Stiegler: Capitalism, Technology and the Politics of Spirit
1st Edition
By Ross Abbinnett
January 08, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive account of the work of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most influential living social and political philosophers of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Stiegler’s thought on hyperindustrial society and the development of technological systems through which the ...