EXCOMMUNICATION: THREE INQUIRIES IN MEDIA AND MEDIATION

Book ID/图书代码： 13560013B66389

English Summary/英文概要： Always connect - that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself - those messages that state: "There will be no more messages"? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself - instances they call excommunication. In three linked essays, Excommunication pursues this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today-mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway’s classification scheme by examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Finally, Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and communication, Excommunication offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present condition.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 随时连接——这是如今媒体势在必行的方式。但媒体停止正常工作的时候,当发送方发送消息，接收方却没有收到——这些消息状态:“将不会有更多消息”?在这本书中,亚历山大•r•洛韦尤金•查克和麦肯齐．华克将按我们通常理解的媒体,阐述无法沟通是沟通本身的问题——他们称之为超出沟通。在三篇链接文章中,《超出沟通》通过查看中介面对放逐,排斥和异端的表现追求这种难以捉摸的主题。首先,加洛韦提出了一个原始的基于古典文学和哲学的中介理论,用爱马仕,彩虹女神和复仇女神三姐妹绘制出三种最普遍的中介模式今日中介作为交换,作为启发和广播。然后,查克通过检查现代恐怖类型和中世纪神秘主义之间的秘密联系的超出沟通概念来大胆地超越加洛韦的分类方案。最后,华克唤起因为偏离媒体理论和传统的政治异端而激怒了的人们的诗兴。重新审视司空见惯的媒体定义、协调和沟通,《超出沟通》提供了一窥非人类找到满足我们现状的中介理论。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“当媒体理论似乎无处不在又无定形,比以往任何时候都更有必要,然而常常被困在旧范式或迷恋新技术,《超出沟通》及时的干预。如今这个历史时刻我们拥有如此多的知识,从根本上这些资源很可能是创始文件-纽约媒体理论的学校终于到来了吗?”(Thomas Bartscherer巴德学院)

“At a moment when media theory seems both ubiquitous and amorphous, more necessary than ever, yet often trapped in old paradigms or infatuated with new technology, Excommunication makes a timely and provocative intervention. There’s so much intellectual ferment in this historically informed, radically contemporary volume that it might well be a founding document—has the New York school of media theory finally arrived?”(Thomas Bartscherer, Bard College)

“Communicational media permeate every aspect of our lives. But do we really know what media are? And do we really grasp what’s at stake in every act of communication? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark explore the obscure but fascinating origins and esoteric limits of communicational media and suggest helpful ways that we might be able to experience and use them differently.”(Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University)

About the Author/作者介绍： “通讯媒体渗透到我们生活的方方面面。但是我们真的知道媒体是什么吗?我们真的掌握任何行为的交流?在本书中,亚历山大•r•洛韦尤金•查克和麦肯齐．华克探索通讯媒体模糊但迷人的起源和深奥的秘密，提供有用的我们可以体验和以不同方式使用它们的知识。”(Steven Shaviro韦恩州立大学)

亚历山大•r•洛韦是纽约大学媒体研究副教授。他是关于数字媒体和批判理论四本书的作者,最近的一本书是《界面效应》。尤金•查克纽约新学院媒体研究学院副教授。他是许多书的作者,包括《生活背后》,也是由芝加哥大学出版社出版的。麦肯齐．华克是纽约新学院人文学科的教授。他的著作包括《黑客宣言》和《玩家理论》。

Alexander R. Galloway is associate professor of media studies at New York University. He is the author of four books on digital media and critical theory, most recently, The Interface Effect. Eugene Thacker is associate professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School. He is the author of many books, including After Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press. McKenzie Wark is professor of liberal studies at the New School. His books include A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.

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