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Life After New Media: Mediation As a Vital Process,Used
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In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objectscomputers, smart phones, iPods, Kindlesto an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediatedsubject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms.By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediationallencompassing and indivisiblebecomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a 'cut' to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from mediaenacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of 'doing' media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.
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