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Crisis in the Global Mediasphere

Desire, Displeasure and Cultural Transformation

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  1. Jeff Lewis
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 1-13

  3. Imagining the End: Crisis Culture and the Pleasure Economy

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 14-51

  4. Grand Fraud: New Capitalism, Fantasy and Financial Crisis

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 52-92

  5. Reckless Desire: Love, Sexuality and Infinite Bliss

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 93-130

  6. Global Inequalities: Changing World Conditions

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 131-162

  7. The Shadow and the Fawn: Sustainable Nature and Collapsing Ecologies

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 163-192

  8. Fear and Trembling: The Vicissitudes of Global Terror

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 193-219

  9. Conclusion: Visions of the Beginning

    • Jeff Lewis
    Pages 220-224

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-244
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Crisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change. The book argues that a crisis consciousness has emerged through the interaction of crisis conditions and a more expansive human desire for pleasure.

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"Jeff Lewis's exceptional study, Crisis in the Global Mediasphere: Desire, Displeasure and Cultural Transformation, engages broadly with the discourses constructing and constructed through the anxieties and desires that permeate contemporary society. Focusing on the (re)constructions of crisis and a (collective) crisis consciousness within a 'global mediasphere', Lewis touches on issues as diverse as the current financial turmoil, sexual desire and relationships, growing global inequalities, widespread ecological destruction, and continued warfare and terrorism." - Adam Brown, Cultural Studies Review

About the author

Jeff Lewis (PhD) is Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia. He is an internationally recognised researcher, author and scholar in media and cultural studies.

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