Old media & discursive construction of new media

The last titles were 'who was dissatisfied with old media', 'the discursive construction of new media'. Here's the first title's summary.



•Psychoanalytic theory
–Critical thoughts…
–Recast in more sociological language

•The imaginaire
–Jacques Lacan
–‘real’ & ‘symbolic’
–Not refer poetic mental faculty or the activity of fantasizing

•Apply to technology
–Role of such an ‘other’
–Social reality and desires for a better society

•Abstract notion
–Case study
–Reminding ourselves
–Considering the recurring sense

•Loss of the form that are displaced
–Photography on painting
–Television then video on cinema

•More recently
–Digital imaging on photographyGraphics software

•Understanding the conditions
–Seeing values a culture
–Understanding how the concrete object


And second title's summary.


Ø What is discourse?

“Discourses” means to construct their objects.
new media provides technological imagination

Ø A sense of repetition in how media changes

#the contextual meaning of déjà vu
- each new medium occurs technologically and socioeconomically in the same way
- the same patterns of response from the members of the culture.
#critical point
the same patterns occur in different historical and social contexts

Ø Determine a kind of media

#handmade images and still photographic images from film and cinema ->The appearance of panorama or diorama theater -> technological visual culture -> what is real?

Ø Discursive construction of new media

#Visual reality in new technology
- communication media
- enrich existing forms of consumer culture