Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation

by Amanda Lagerkvist

Tied to the profundity of life and death, media are and have always been existential. Yet, as they are deeply embedded in the lifeworld on both individual and global scales, they currently capitalize on human existence seemingly without limit, while being mythologized as boundless harbingers of the future and as solutions to the predicaments of a world now poised on the edge. In this situation it is imperative to move beyond either the habitual or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190925566
• ISBN13: 9780190925567
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"