Pixilated Practices
eBook - ePub

Pixilated Practices

Media, Ritual, and Identity

  1. 118 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pixilated Practices

Media, Ritual, and Identity

About this book

Media is a big part of our lives. We see and hear it everywhere. In this book Miller demonstrates how media has taken the place of ritual(s). Our everyday lives are constantly facilitated by media rituals. This media ritual process exists regardless of its content and is a phenomenon that overcomes our subjective experience with a constant flux of representations and seduction. Memory and mind are in a perpetual process of re-imaging, distortion, and violence. Human relationships can be comprised of sheer information sharing from any distance around the globe. The objective world around us is experienced and interpreted through the virtual worlds we are forced to participate in. The dialectic is barred and the flood of media images captures us in the univocal. Persons then understand that truth comes from their singular, isolated, and violated self. Therefore, the body in the real world feels foreign and we feel dissociated and anxious, reaching in a vain attempt for more media to fill and restore our bodily and spiritual needs. Our personhood and everything that we are lie under the influence of this media ritual process.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Ritual and Meaning in a Cyberworld
  4. Language and Meaning
  5. Fusion and the Subjugated Self
  6. One or Many Voices
  7. The Violence of Virtuality
  8. Thinking and the Screen
  9. Real Fun
  10. The Real and Relationship
  11. Pixilated Personhood
  12. Global Greatness
  13. Real Ritual: Reprise
  14. Prophesy of the Rite
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography