{"product_id":"transmitted-wounds-media-and-the-mediation-of-trauma-9780197600795","title":"Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma","description":"In \u003cem\u003eTransmitted Wounds\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003eimpact 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 traumatic technologically transmissible and reproducible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking up a number of case studies--the radio broadcasts of the Eichmann trial; the videotaping of Holocaust testimonies; recent psychiatric debates about trauma through media following the 9\/11 attacks; current controversy surrounding drone operators' post-trauma; and digital platforms of\u003cbr\u003ealgorithmic-holographic witnessing and virtual reality exposure therapy for PTSD--Pinchevski demonstrates how the technological mediation of trauma feeds into the traumatic condition itself. The result is a novel understanding of media as constituting the material conditions for trauma to appear as\u003cbr\u003esomething that cannot be fully approached and yet somehow must be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile drawing on contemporary materialist media theory, especially the work of Friedrich Kittler and his followers, Pinchevski goes beyond the anti-humanistic tendency characterizing the materialist approach, discovering media as bearing out the human vulnerability epitomized in trauma, and finding\u003cbr\u003etherein a basis for moral concern in the face of violence and atrocity. \u003cem\u003eTransmitted Wounds\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds the ethical and political stakes involved in the technological transmission of mental wounds across clinical, literary, and cultural contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmit Pinchevski\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBy Way of Interruption: Levinas and the Ethics of Communication\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and coeditor of two books, \u003cem\u003eMedia Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) and \u003cem\u003eEthics of Media\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). His research interests are in philosophy and theory of communication and media.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382921531666,"sku":"9780197600795","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c036618e-9ef8-4d9e-b1d8-da875f8c03d6.jpg?v=1728773870","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/transmitted-wounds-media-and-the-mediation-of-trauma-9780197600795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}