Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media

Higher Diversities
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-88400-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

This book explores the ways in which social media has given new political importance to social life. In seizing certain economic and political functions and turning them into social practices through the various devices and technologies of digital copying and sharing, social media has enabled new forms of political participation, thus reinvigora

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toews, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Power Void

Introduction: That’s ‘Life’

Part I Conflations of Social Life and Political Life in the Digital Era

1. Deleuze: Societies of Control and the Ordering Effects of ‘Modulation’

2. Andrejevic: Infoglut and the Internalization of Desire for Control

3. Latour: The ‘Parliament of Things’

Part II Strategies of Critique of Conflationism

4. The Causal-Action Focus of Traditional Social Science

5. The Problem of Modernist Ontologies of Activity

6. Higher Diversities: A Tardian Critique of Emergent Relations

Part III The Consequences of Higher Diversities for Contemporary Social and Political Life

7. Simultaneity: The Impositions of Experience

8. Political Life in the Era of Social Life

9. Experiences of Closedness

Epilogue: Complexions of the Generalized Public

Über Autor(innen)

David Toews received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. An award-winning teacher and major grant recipient from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) in the area of Sociology, he has been a faculty member in several universities and has published articles in such journals as Theory, Culture and Society and the European Journal of Social Theory.