Walter Benjamin and the Media – The Spectacle of Modernity Kang Hardback

Walter Benjamin and the Media\n\nThe Spectacle of Modernity\n\nJaeho Kang (Author)\n\n9780745645209, Polity Press\n\nHardback, published 20 June 2014\n\n196 pages\n21.8 x 14.7 x 2.7 cm, 0.454 kg\n\n\""In Walter Benjamin and the Media Jaeho Kang strikes a near perfect balance between biographical narrative and theoretical analysis. In doing so, Benjamin\uFFFDs media critique is fully contextualised removing any notion of obsolescence which may arise from a contemporary reading.\""\n LSE Review of Books\n \n For too long Walter Benjamin's lapidary texts have merely sparkled in the distance, unintegrated into everyday analyses of media and communications research. Jaeho Kang's fluent and energetic new reading of Benjamin's writings on radio, storytelling, media industries, and urban culture reinvigorates our connection with this great 20th century thinker of cultural change. Kang's beautifully organised book provides us with a welcome toolkit for grasping today's high-speed reconfiguratio]