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Justin Elghanayan

You Do Not Talk About the Spirit of the Age: Revisiting Thomas de Zengotita’s Mediated

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Twenty years ago, Thomas de Zengotita’s Mediated: How Media Shapes the World and the Way You Live in it described a society reeling from explosive technological advances. Humanity’s escalating conquest of nature clashed head-on with deep-seated beliefs about natural order, creating a disconcerting sense of alienation amidst an overabundance of media, control and information. The…

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Review Essay: Thomas de Zengotita’s Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward a New Humanism (New York: Palgrave, 2019)

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Derrida, Kristeva and Foucault. Whatever you might think about these legends of French Theory and American academic culture, reading Thomas de Zengotita’s Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics will have you wondering who is having the thoughts: Is it the Cartesian subject, skeptical and analytical; a French postmodern not-a-subject, intertwined with an infinite cascade of texts; or, perhaps,…

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