Check out the new blog from Richard Grusin. The following is excerpted from an interesting post that considers structures of feeling in terms of the concept of premediation. The concept is quite useful in thinking about the current economic setting. Read the whole thing: Premediation.
This discursive proliferation of media talking heads, historical narratives, and graphic formats concerned with the economy and the market crisis works to provide competing potential, not-fully-defined premediations of possible futures into which US and global citizens, corporations, collectivities, and nation-states find themselves thrown and among which they will have to navigate. Such structures of feeling operate ordinarily as part of our media everyday, but in periods of crisis and rapid affective change like this one their operations become much more intense and thus much more visible than at moments of relative quiescence or stability.
What is the link?
Posted by: Karen | October 09, 2008 at 01:22 PM
click on the word premediation or look on the sitebar
Posted by: Jodi | October 09, 2008 at 01:48 PM