Plato's Cave: Desire, Power, and the Specular Functions of the Media

by John O'Neill and John O'Neill

Book Overview

This book argues that our world is inescapably mediated or specularized. It investigates human dilemmas without taking flight into cultural and political elitism and at the same time does not ignore the corporate and military agenda that is serviced by the media at great human cost. Arguments are drawn from political economy, psychoanalysis, and semiotics to describe the cultural functions of the media with respect to the state, the economy, the family,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893917222
• ISBN13: 9780893917227
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"