A Philosophical Study of Contemporary Political Media Open Access
Demers, Michael (Spring 2018)
Abstract
In the thesis “A Philosophical Study of Contemporary Political Media,” I argue that a philosophical analysis of contemporary political media must account for the epistemological, affective, and formal conditions of emerging political media environments, which I consider by drawing from the work of Henri Bergson, Baruch Spinoza, and Pierre Bourdieu respectively. In particular, I analyze the forms of knowledge involved in phenomena such as “alternative facts” and the conservative denial of climate science, the affective force of ideas and information circulated through political media, and the formal qualities of particular political media platforms such as television.
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….….1
Chapter One—One or Many Crowds: the Limits of the Intellect, the Method of Intuition, and the Formation of False Problems………12
Chapter Two—Ideas are not simply Ideas: The Mind-Body Relation and the Power of Affect………………………………………………………28
Chapter Three—The Spin Zone: Television and the Formation of Political Vertigo……………………………………………………………………41
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………….……52
Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………………...54
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