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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Misha Kavka and I are pleased to announce that our co-edited special issue of MediaNZ is now #live on the topic of ‘mediating the real’</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This special issue of <em>MediaNZ </em>addresses what the ‘Real’ might mean in contemporary media studies. Moving beyond common-sense understandings of ‘realness’ as material world or objective ‘truth’, <em>Mediating
the Real</em> seeks to apply psychoanalytic understandings of the Real to mediated cultures. The special issue takes its motivation from currents in critical Lacanian thought which interrogate the political dimensions of the Real’s irruptions into, and intersections
with, contemporary culture. In particular, papers engage with mediated cultural formations in order to investigate the Real as an anchor / point of return, as more than / beyond the Symbolic, as radically inaccessible / alterior, as that which troubles the
Imaginary, etc</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It features work by Brett Nicholls on baudrillard, Trump and the integral real; Thomas Owen presenting a critique of FTA agreements using Laclau and Lacan; a Lacanian engagement with reality cooking
shows by Bernadine Lynch; Laura Stephenson’s discussion of BLACK SWAN and psychosis; a Lacanian analysis of VIDEODROME by Scott Wilson; Rory Jeffs and Gemma Blackwood on WESTWORLD and Lacan; and how trauma is represented in RAIN OF THE CHILDREN by John Farnsworth.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Check it out!</span></div>
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<div><a href="https://medianz.otago.ac.nz/medianz/issue/view/24">https://medianz.otago.ac.nz/medianz/issue/view/24</a></div>
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<div>Rosie</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">ROSEMARY OVERELL <a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052355.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052355.html</a></div>
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