Media and geopoetics of late modernity. Naturalization and nostalgia as a horizon of imagined communities Cover Image

Media i geopolityki późnej nowoczesności. Naturalizacja i nostalgia jako horyzont wspólnot wyobrażonych.
Media and geopoetics of late modernity. Naturalization and nostalgia as a horizon of imagined communities

Author(s): Karina Banaszkiewicz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Media studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication, Social psychology and group interaction, Globalization
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: geopoetics of media; imagined communities; virtual geographies; media space; digital proxemics; reality/virtuality

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary media organize exchange by means of Internet, bridges, convergences, double addressing… The result is overproduction of hybrids with mixed weak ontology and inclusion of digital augments into living space. Implementation of technology makes people face a change and requires domestication of innovations and subsequent products of the language of mathematics. Adaptation is slower than the technological change. What counts is an actual range of transformations and cultural content. It is about proxemic schemes characteristic of numerical media and schemes according to which media space is perceived, presented, understood and created. Experiencing a place and recording human reactions to a digital place lead to geopoetics. Virtual geographies and patterns of home and route… repeated by media result in questions about imagined communities and content which is able to integrate them nowadays. Two strategies of being-in-the-world dominate in late modernity: naturalization and nostalgia. In the context of them people still live in the horizon of home and of encountering the others, and a global culture still remains a question of time.

  • Issue Year: 57/2018
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 88-98
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish