Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:2nd Aug '23
Should be back in stock very soon
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.
Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algorithms, intent on selling us more of the same, and on a media industry too greedy to risk investing in intellectually challenging, radically new, products. Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture takes a comprehensive approach that both theorises and historically grounds the idea of repetition in relation to media as something that is deeply embedded in our cultural tradition. This project received funding from the Carlsberg Foundation.
In engaging, lyrical prose the book demonstrates how repetition has been central to art and literature throughout the ages. Sameness and Repetition re-energises an ancient debate and makes it completely contemporary, drawing effortlessly on examples ranging from the classics to Super Mario and AI-generated images. This book brings together critical theory and literary studies with contemporary digital media studies, enriching both fields.
-- Jill Walker Rettberg, Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen, NoISBN: 9781804559550
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
Weight: 309g
200 pages