Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma

by Amit Pinchevski

Book Overview

In Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Bringing media theory to bear on trauma theory, Pinchevski reveals the technical operations that inform the conception and experience of traumatic impact and memory. He offers a bold thesis about the deep association of media and trauma: media bear witness to the human failure to bear witness, making the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190625589
• ISBN13: 9780190625580
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"