Cosmic Exo-Surprise, or, When the Sky is (Really) Falling, What’s the Media to Do?

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Noys’s discussion of “la politique du pire,” in his The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), places this in a broader context.

Gean Moreno, “Notes on the Inorganic, Part II: Terminal Velocity,” e-flux journal 32 (February 2012). See →.

Battaglia, “Coming in at an Unusual Angle: Exo-Surprise and the Fieldworking Cosmonaut,” Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 85, No. 4 (2012): 1089–1106.

Joseph Masco, “Target Audience,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 64, No. 3 (2008): 22–31.

Compare Andrew Arno, Alarming Reports: Communicating Conflict in the Daily News (New York: Berghahn, 2009).

Noys, The Persistence of the Negative.

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Kenneth Chang, “Satellite’s Fall Becomes Phenomenon,” New York Times, September 22, 2011. See →.

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Mazzarella, “Affect: What Is It Good For?,” in Enchantments of Modernity: Empire, Nation, and Globalization, ed. Saurabh Dube (New York: Routledge, 2006), 299.

Ibid. For expressions of what Deleuze terms “the control society” (Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October 59 (1992): 3–7) one need look no further than “the relentless marketing and ‘branding’ of even the most ‘inner’ aspects of subjective experience,” as film theorist Steven Shapiro insightfully puts it in his Post-Cinematic Affect (London: Zero Books, 2010), 1.

Masco, “Target Audience”; and Masco, “Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis,” Social Studies of Science 40 (2010): 7–40.

Masco, “Target Audience,” 31.

The term is psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich’s.

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Of course, behind the screen, as it were, mechanical solutions are being sought and even found. See →.

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Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics—Volume I, trans. Robert Bononno (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010).

Bruno Latour, “Whose Cosmos, Which Cosmopolitics?: Comments on the Peace Terms of Ulrich Beck,” Common Knowledge Vol. 10, No. 3 (2004): 454.

See Latour’s comments on Stengers’s concept in Latour, “Whose Cosmos, Which Cosmopolitics?”

Noys, The Persistence of the Negative, 54.

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Žižek, “Hegel Versus Heidegger,” e-flux journal 32 (February 2012). See →.

Shaviro references what he takes to be the shared vision of Deleuze and Adorno on the topic of modernist art. See Post-Cinematic Affect, 163.

Gean Moreno, “Notes on the Inorganic, Part II: Terminal Velocity.”

Ironically, it is Eisenstein who speaks of studying over and over again the ethnographic film Nanook of the North—the film that inspired the coinage of the term “documentary” in the popular press, and which is all but an homage to long takes of everyday life events in out-of-the-way places, from its collaborators’ point of view.

Valentine, “Exit Strategy: Profits, Cosmology, and the Future of Humans in Space,” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 4 (2012.): 1045–1067.

See Shaviro’s discussion of the issue in the context of “ubiquitous digital technologies,” Post-Cinematic Affect, 131.

Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect.

Personal communication.