Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 1-7

3. Remediating 9/11

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 8-37

4. Premediation

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 38-61

5. Affect, Mediality, and Abu Ghraib

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 62-89

6. The Affective Life of Media

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 90-121

7. The Anticipation of Security

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 122-142

8. Conclusion

   • Richard Grusin

   Pages 143-155

9. Back Matter

   Pages 156-196

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In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the 'pre-mediation' of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media worked to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.

• bibliography
• event
• future
• media

'In this book, Richard Grusin demonstrates why he is one of the leading media and cultural theorists of our time. Lucid and convincing throughout, Premediation interrogates our mediatized futures, today. It is essential reading.'

- Andrew Hoskins, University of Nottingham, UK

'Premediation offers an important counterpoint to the hegemony of futurism, a critical analysis of how visions and narratives of the future require more than a second glance. Grusin remediates his well known work on media, technology and time through an affective political sphere; one that, he argues, is cultivating an uncanny feeling of inevitability.'

- Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada

RICHARD GRUSIN is Director at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. His publications includeRemediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay Bolter, 1999).