Love Objects
Avoiding the Subject Avoiding the Subject MEDIA, CULTURE AND THE OBJECT Justin Clemens | Dominic Pettman A U P Avoiding the Subject Avoiding the Subject Media, Culture and the Object Justin Clemens Dominic Pettman AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Cover illustration: Merritt Symes Cover design: Sabine Mannel, N.A.P., Amsterdam Lay-out: PROgrafici, Goes ISBN 90 5356 716 X NUR 736 © Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2004 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval sys- tem, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copy- right owner and the author of the book. Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgments / 7 Introduction / 9 The Influence of Anxiety / 11 Chapter 1: The Aesthetic Object / 23 A Break in Transmission: Art, Appropriation and Accumulation / 25 Chapter 2: The Love Object / 37 Relations with Concrete Others / 39 (or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Berlin Wall) Chapter 3: The Elusive Object / 57 “Look at the Bunny”: The Rabbit as Virtual Totem / 59 (or, What Roger Rabbit Can Teach Us About the Second Gulf War) Chapter 4: The Media(ted) Object / 81 From September 11 to the 7-11: Popular Propaganda and the Internet’s War on Terrorism / 83 Chapter 5: The Shared Object / 93 Abandoned Commonplaces: Some Belated Thoughts on Big Brother / 95 Chapter 6: The Moveable Object / 109 Public Transport: Jaunting from
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