The Hauntology of Media Addiction

This article proposes an exploration of the phenomenon of media addiction as the expression of a haunting: the re-emergence of nostalgia for presence and materiality. Relying on Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and Karen Barad’s neomaterialist theory, media addiction is refigured as an unavoidable human...

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Main Author: Eva Zekany
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/1147