Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia

Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality and exploitation? Is the new media landscape creating a dangerous distraction from the climate crisis? Connecting the work of critical postmedia studies to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of schizoanalysis, this book marks a bifurcatory shift in the radical theory on technology. A range of critical perspectives are explored by international authors who engage with ecology, ecosophy, climate change, the postmedia condition, and the Anthropocene. Answering the above questions, editors Joff P.N. Bradley, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, and Manoj N.Y. frame the volume's chapters as urgent responses to unbridled technological advance and impending climate disaster. Using ecological philosophy as a core focus, the volume analyses new media, technologies of the self, the power of algorithms, and technologies of resistance, to outline a materialist paradigm capable of addressing crises across the cultural, biological, and informational spheres. Through contesting economies built on desire and destruction and questioning the infiltration of capitalism in all of its spheres of negative influence, the editors review recent technological developments in light of Deleuze and Guattari's earlier seminal theories to make bold new connections and critiques in the study of media, philosophy, and the environment.

IllustrationsTablesContributorsForeword Felicity Colman (London College of Fashion at University of the Arts, UK)Acknowledgements Introduction, Joff P. N. Bradley (Teikyo University, Japan), Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) and Manoj N. Y. (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) Part I: Philo-fiction and Schizoid Self: Resistance to Techno-Tethering1. All Power to the Cockroaches! Postmedia and the Posthuman, Joff P. N. Bradley (Teikyo University, Japan),2. The Existential Territory of Shaheen Bagh: A Schizoanalytic Cartography, Manoj N. Y. (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)3. The Schizoanalysis of Mechanical Surveillance, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) Part II: Principles of Schizo Thought4. Reflections on Postmedia for Philosophers, Edward Thornton (University of Aberdeen, UK)5. Postmedia Hans: Keeping it Real with Guattari, Janell Watson (Virginia Tech, USA)6. Postmedia and Dissensus: Reinventing Democracy with Guattari, Jean-Sébastien Laberge, (University of Ottawa, Canada) Part III: Becoming Algorithmic and Ecosophical: Struggles for Singularity7. Assemblage Line and Tactical Fluidity: Along Beijing's Lines versus Hong Kong's 'Be Water', Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)8. Cartographies of the Gaze of the Other/Other Gazes: Youth, Slums, and Audiovisual Production in the Postmedia Age, Silvia Grinberg (National University of San Martin (UNSAM), Argentina) and Julieta Armella (National University of San Martin (UNSAM), Argentina)9. No media..., David R. Cole, (Western Sydney University, Australia) 10. Schizoanalysis and Ecology on the Other Side of Postmedia, Mark Featherstone (Keele University, UK) Part IV: Microtechnologies and Resistance: Chaodyssey of Postmedia11. Groups of Militant Insanity versus the Videopolice: The Schizoanalysis of Radical Italian Audiovisual Media Culture as Postmedia Assemblages, Michael Goddard (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)12. Minor Video and Becoming-Japanese: Towards Migrant Adolescent Molecular Revolution, Masayuki Iwase (University of British Columbia, Canada) 13. Akira vs Tetsuo: Postmedia Chaos as Reserve of Potentials in Guattarian Ecosophy: Akira vs Tetsuo, Toshiya Ueno (Wako University, Japan)Index