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Vol 16, No 2 (2016): Mediating the Real
This special issue of MediaNZ addresses what the ‘Real’ might mean in contemporary media studies. Moving beyond common-sense understandings of ‘realness’ as material world or objective ‘truth’, Mediating the Real 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.
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Mediating the Real | |
| Misha Kavka, Rosemary Overell |
Articles
| Baudrillard in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Groundwork for a Critique of the Rise of Trump | |
| Brett Nicholls |
| Lacan, Laclau, and the Impossibility of Free Trade | |
| Thomas Owen |
| Australian Culinary Television: Visions of the Real | |
| Bernardine Lynch |
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: A Dancer, Her Psychosis, and the Black Swan of the Real | |
| Laura Stephenson |
| ‘Death to Videodrome’: Cronenberg, Žižek and an Ontology of the Real | |
| Scott Wilson |
| Whose Real? Encountering New Frontiers in Westworld | |
| Rory Jeffs, Gemma Blackwood |
| Tensions and Symmetries in the Ethnographic Unconscious: Lacan, Rain of the Children, Cross-Cultural Trauma | |
| John Farnsworth |