Posted: December 30th, 2015

Mediological analysis,

Mediological analysis, of 2,500 words
must include an appropriate bibliography

these our weekly study from the module handbook please use them
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Week eight: Mediology and the Image: Mediological Analyses 2

Further exploration of Debray’s mediological analyses – of ‘the image’ and the difference focussing on the material realisation of an image does to how it is used and transmitted (passed down through history) and who it gathers together to view it and how it is shown. Stafford (2013) summarises and assesses Debray’s work in images and their histories – he appreciates key aspects of his work but remains ambivalent about a deal of it.

This week’s readings:
Debray, Regis (1996) Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms, London / New York: Verso, pp. 133-44.

Stafford, Andy (2013) ‘Transmission versus Communication: Regis Debray’s Mediology’, pp. 145-78 in Modern French Visual Theory: a critical reader, edited by Nigel Saint and Andy Stafford, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Additional reading: Debray, R. (1995c) ‘The three ages of Looking’ Critical Inquiry 21: 329-55 if you wish to take Debray’s analysis of images and image regimes further.

Week nine: Mediology and Religion

Debray is not interested in religion as truth claims but as the material realisation of history (transmission) over, sometimes, very long periods of time (Christianity is nearly 2,000 years old, Sikhkism about 500 years.)