Imagined Communities 2.0
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Kornbluh (0009-0008-7810-4447, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 406-412 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking Marxism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08935696.2022.2111958 |
| OpenAlex | W4313164337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
A solicited response for a forum on Matthew Flisfeder's Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media, organized by Yahya Madra, this brief essay considers the book's thesis that social media functions as a new symbolic order for digital society, one that both ideologically interpellates individuals and provides a metaphor for social totality that might galvanize social transformation. The essay concludes that this thesis significantly contributes to media studies but neglects the psychoanalytic account of digital infrastructures as a waning of the symbolic and an elevating of the imaginary. It therefore underestimates some political complexities of digital culture
Digital media · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Metaphor · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Social media · Social order · Sociology · The Imaginary · The Symbolic · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |