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Description
In Crisis Cultures: Narratives of Western Modernity in the Digital Age, Nicholas Manganas argues that crisis should be understood not as a series of isolated events, but as a constitutive state intrinsic to modern Western societies. He explores how this perpetual state of crisis intensifies underlying societal tensions and reshapes cultural and political dynamics. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, including the Capitol Hill riots in the United States, and analyses from countries such as Spain and Greece, Manganas explores how both digital and traditional media perpetuate crisis narratives that significantly influence contemporary cultural identities and shape political discourses. His analysis also engages with the emotional and temporal aspects of crises, particularly focusing on how digital environments, through their ambient influence, shape and sustain these states of crisis. By reinterpreting the concept of crisis through an interdisciplinary lens that includes historical, political and cultural analysis, the author offers a compelling analysis of its role in shaping the present and futures contours of Western societies.
Table of Contents
The Experience is Out of Joint
Chapter Two
Crisis Ambientality
Chapter Three
Confabulations
Chapter 4
Queering Crisis
Product details
Published | Oct 03 2024 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 236 |
ISBN | 9781666935219 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Dimensions | 0 x 0 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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We are immersed in crisis cultures. But not only.' Manganas's cartography of crisis cultures, as defined by a lack of meaningful events leading to the intensification of underlying tensions, represents a groundbreaking intervention in contemporary critical thought. A first-person, timely, experiential journey into the multilayered, complex temporality of the crises enveloping us.
Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Melbourne, Australia
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We are all living in crisis cultures argues Nicholas Manganas in this important and timely study. Manganas is interested in exploring what multiple crises do as the drivers of an ongoing phenomenon of intensification that has implications for individuals, the nation, and group identities under western modernity. Eschewing an approach that focuses on identifying a single crisis, defined in space and time, Manganas homes in on the ways that multiple crises emerge, overlap, cross-fertilise and reach a critical mass in a given society, in the process destabilizing notions of historical linearity and temporal certainty. The examination of crisis cultures, Manganas proposes, tells us a great deal about our current historical moment, hence the need for new critical and conceptual interpretations of that moment. This book merits a wide audience of critics and scholars working across a range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Paul Allatson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia