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Intensive Media

Aversive Affect and Visual Culture

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Pain: Aversive Affects and Micropolitics

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 1-25
  3. War: Visual Brutality and Affective Vectors

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 26-47
  4. Torture: Obscenity and Complicity

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 48-69
  5. Disaster: Intensive Encounters

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 70-89
  6. Masochism: Painful Pleasures

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 90-108
  7. Salvation: Medieval Vision, Affective Community

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 109-129
  8. Illness: Putting It All Online

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 130-151
  9. Epilogue

    • Anthony McCosker
    Pages 152-155
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 156-185

About this book

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments.

Reviews

'McCosker's book is a very interesting read with its focus on pain images as forms of mediation aimed at appealing to a shared human vulnerability, on the affective and political complexity of pain images, and on the development of concepts to describe

more-than-representational forms of communication.' - Carsten Stage, Journal of Media and Communication Research

Authors and Affiliations

  • Swinburne University, Australia

    Anthony McCosker

About the author

Anthony McCosker lectures in Media and Communications in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University, Australia. His research explores media affect, digital and visual cultures and social media practices and publics.

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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