Chaos Media: A Sonic Economy of Digital Space

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The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual worlds collide. Stephen Kennedy investigates the concept of our digital space leading up to the digital turn of the 1990s to fully understand how our perceptions of orientation in space in time was altered. Chaos Media: A Sonic Economy of Digital Space re-thinks the five fundamental paths to our contemporary understanding of the digital age: cultural, political, economic, scientific, and aesthetic, and ties them together to form a coherent whole in order to demonstrate how critical thinking can be reconfigured using a methodological approach that uses ‘chaos’ and ‘complexity’ as systematic tools for studying contemporary mediated space. Kennedy introduces the concept of Sonic Economy, a methodology that allows for a critical engagement with the heterogeneous elements of an information society wherein the dispersion of discrete elements is manifest but not always clearly visible. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction Overview of the book Notes 1. Sonic Dimensions Universal and relative space Foucault and space Notes 2. Territories of Resistance Notes 3. Echostate Notes 4. An Invisible Exchange Notes 5. Motor Cities The importance of place: Coventry The importance of place: Detroit Notes Bibliography Index