Network Aesthetics

Patrick Jagoda

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English

University of Chicago Press
22 March 2016

Theory of art; Films, movies & cinema; Literary studies: general; Media studies

The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their world—and their view of themselves.

Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up space for participatory and improvisational thought.

Contributing to fields as diverse as literary criticism, digital studies, media theory, and American studies, Network Aesthetics brilliantly demonstrates that, in today’s world, networks are something that can not only be known, but also felt, inhabited, and, crucially, transformed.

By: Patrick Jagoda
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 452g
ISBN: 9780226346519
ISBN 10: 022634651X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 March 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick Jagoda is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago and a coeditor of Critical Inquiry.

Reviews for Network Aesthetics

Network Aesthetics is ambitious and comprehensive, informed and original. Jagoda manages to retain the fluidity of the term network while understanding it in both its utopian and dystopian dimensions, and he displays an alertness to, and facility with, issues of medium specificity that is both rare and very welcome. --Scott Bukatman, Stanford University