Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices

Brief Description:"Beyond Globalization" highlights how mediated practices have become integral to global culture; how social practices have emerged out of computer-related industries; how contemporary apocalyptic narratives reflect the anxieties of a U. S. culture facing global challenges; and how design, play, and technology help us understand the histories and ideals behind the digital architectures that mediate our everyday actions. This provocative volume brings together the best new work of scholars within such diverse fields as history, sociology, anthropology, film, media studies, and art. Review Quotes: "Thoughtful and insightful, this volume compellingly reshapes debates over global media with its rare interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between the global and the local."--Wendy Hui Kyong Chun"author of Programmed Visions: Software and Memory" (03/07/2011) Review Quotes: "Exploring patterns of critical intervention, cultural remediation, and runaway speculation, these imaginative essays channel the logic of our zeitgeist, for "Beyond Globalization" opens the multiplicities of "world making.""--Jon McKenzie"author of Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance" (09/01/2011) Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor Bio:  Aneesh, A A. Aneesh is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Contributor Bio:  Petro, Patrice Patrice Petro is professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of "Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History" and "Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany" and the editor of several books, including "Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s"; "Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror"; and "Global Currents: Media and Technology Now".