The Media Crease
Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference
The Media Crease
Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference
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Description
The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference brings together scholars from The Color of New Media working group at UC Berkeley to examine how patterns of repetition shape media, culture, technology, and social difference.
Building on Abigail De Kosnik's concept of the “media crease”-the traces of return, re-use, and re-engagement with media-contributors explore how new media and technology can entrench colonialism, racism, capitalism, and misogynoir, while also generating disruptive possibilities for resistance, creativity, and collective world-making. Essays analyze cultural and technological phenomena across diverse geographies, from Indigenous ceremony to AI, digital activism to hip-hop, archives to embodied performance. In doing so, the collection demonstrates how culture is made and remade through mediated repetition, and how communities marked by race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora leverage new media and technology to both endure oppressive structures and imagine alternative futures.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley, USA), Keith P. Feldman (UC Berkeley, USA), Ra Malika Imhotep (Spelman College, USA), and Rashad A. Timmons (UC Berkeley, USA)
1. The Media Crease
Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley, USA)
Section I: Decolonial Loops and Ruptures
2. Ancestral Technologies of Re-membering: Dance/Story/Ceremony and the Heart/Circle
Marcelo Garzo Montalvo (California State University San Marcos, USA)
3. Plantation Cartographies: Mapping the “Asian Settler Question” in Hawaiian Historiography and Film
Keoni Correa (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
4. How To Find a Lost City: Techno-Decolonization in Cultural Heritage Media
Jaclyn Zhou (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
5. Th/read/ing Creases: Reflections on Palestinian World-Making and the 2020 Palestine Writes Literature Festival
Rana Sharif (Independent Scholar, USA)
Section II: Black Matter
6. “The Hug Shared Around the World”: Devonte Hart, Racial Iconicity, and the Affects of Repetition
Rashad A. Timmons (UC Berkeley, USA)
7. Towards Critical Amplification: #SandraBland, #BreonnaTaylor, and Transmedia Storytellers on Twitter
Nalya Rodriguez (University of Southern California, USA), Aaminah Norris (CEO of UhHidden Voices, USA), and Dale Allender (Sacramento State University, USA)
8. “Good Pussy!”: Noname's Black Feminist Interruption of Hip-Hop Misogynoir
Vincente Perez (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
9. Glitch Being: Disrupting AIin Martine Syms' Mythicc being and Rashad Newsome's Being 1.0
Kaitlin Clifton Forcier (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
10. Repetition, Conjunction: On the Iconography of Black-Palestinian Solidarity
Keith P. Feldman (UC Berkeley, USA)
Section III: Aesthetic Gestures
11. Memory Work: Intimate Objects and Circuits of Mediation
André Brock (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Karen Tongson (Author and independent scholar, USA)
12. Pornography's Virtue: Media Repetition as Moral Transformation in Senegal's Culture of Seduction
Juliana Friend (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
13. Messing up the Crease: Performances and Counter-Aesthetics to the Infrastructure and Spatialization of Whiteness
Brian Truitt (University of California, Irvine, USA)
14. Still There is a Very Large Surface
leena joshi (Artist, poet, independent scholar, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 17 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9798765188996 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 37 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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