Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of DriveISBN: 978-0-7456-4969-6
Hardcover
140 pages
August 2010, Polity
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"Dean is asking the right questions about online life … We
certainly need vigilance and critique to help us resist dotcom
charisma, and no one is fiercer or smarter than Dean on this
front."
LA
Review of Books
"Jodi Dean’s Blog Theory takes as its proximate
subject the eponymous blog—and its living death … what
is offered is both simple and, oddly enough, also hopeful."
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"If Ballard invited the 20th century viewer to witness their own
mass atrocity exhibition, we now have the update for the 21st
century: Jodi Dean's demolition job of the Internet as we know it.
With Blog Theory we can finally terminate the hype of
blogging and seriously engage the deeply distracted condition of
the networked present. The incestuous relationship between
journalism and bloggers is exposed to make way for critical
reflections on techniques of self-management for our
all-too-fragile identities."
Geert Lovink
"Blog Theory is refreshingly free of received ideas about
the wonderful new world of media. Jodi Dean manages the difficult
art of being critical of new media without becoming a cranky
curmudgeon. She uses psychoanalytic concepts to produce a synoptic
view of the decline of symbolic efficiency under communicative
capitalism, and the way the blogosphere participates in this
dissipation of the totems and tokens of what we once thought of as
the public sphere. She clears the way for imagining the politics of
media by other means."
McKenzie Wark, New School University