Ordinary ghosts
Care, attention, and media critique in Cerno, une anti-enquête
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19004572 |
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| Authors | Joseph Mai (0009-0006-1461-2499, Clemson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-131 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French Civilization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-9156 • E-ISSN: 2044-396X |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/cfc.2023.7 |
| OpenAlex | W4383817081 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay considers Julien Cernobori’s “podcast fleuve,” Cerno, une anti-enquête, as a creative alternative to mainstream media practices. It draws first from Yves Citton’s analysis of critical media theory and its use of the lexicon of spectrality to figure derealization, passivity, and manipulation. A documentary reworking of an infamous series of murders committed by Thierry Paulin in the 1980s, Cerno is haunted by ghosts familiar to the French mass media. The essay emphasizes the themes of attention and expression in the ordinary language and care philosophy developed in France by Sandra Laugier. Through this dual perspective, Cernobori’s original use of the podcast form comes into focus as a critique of the media’s use of the specters (ghosts, or zombies), and as the elaboration of a form of attention that sensitizes its listening public to the vulnerability and expression of those who have lacked voice and care
Sociology · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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