{"product_id":"excommunication-three-inquiries-in-media-and-mediation-paperback","title":"Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander R. Galloway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlways connect-that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself-those messages that state: \"There will be no more messages\"? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media and mediation on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself-instances they call excommunication. In three linked essays, \u003ci\u003eExcommunication\u003c\/i\u003e pursues this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today-mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway's classification scheme by examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Charting a trajectory of examples from H. P. Lovecraft to Meister Eckhart, Thacker explores those instances when one communicates or connects with the inaccessible, dubbing such modes of mediation \"haunted\" or \"weird\" to underscore their inaccessibility. Finally, Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. He posits a critical theory that celebrates heresy and that is distinct from those that now venerate Saint Paul. Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and communication, \u003ci\u003eExcommunication\u003c\/i\u003e offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander R. Galloway\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of media studies at New York University and lives in New York, NY. He is the author of four books on digital media and critical theory, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Interface Effect\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of liberal studies at The New School for Social Research and lives in Queens, NY. His books include \u003ci\u003eA Hacker Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300479066214,"sku":"9780226925226","price":56.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RTAyRGtPanJ4bVN0K052R0RVVVNCZz09.webp?v=1773928233","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/excommunication-three-inquiries-in-media-and-mediation-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}