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Post-Mass-Media as networked|networking Performativity: Revisiting Guattari's Concept of Thinking through Current Documentary and Artistic Practices. In open space documentary, what has been described as the documentary triangle of subject, filmmaker and audience - a paradigm that is characteristic of mainstream media and that has informed traditional documentary studies for decades - is replaced by a circularity to "doing documentary". Through 6 In this sense, co-creative networked|networking documentary projects can present a remedy to a phenomenon that Miles deplores when stating that occur all too often in interactive documentary (in the sense of web documentary) whereby "interaction design [is] reduced to the pragmatics of information architecture. 48 | Anna Wiehl This contribution sets out with the goal to revisit, discuss and problematise the opportunities and limitations of the concept of post-mass-media and to investigate how post-mass-media are - potentially - realised in the currently emerging documentary nexus and in how far interactive, networked|networking documentary bears the potential to present alternatives to the "new ethic of non-commitment" and the "dead end of post-modernism" (Guattari/Genosko 1996, p. 112), which Guattari rejected. [Extracted from the article] |
