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- W2325052532 abstract "I cannot remember when I first saw the logo-signature of the CBS Evening News; I have watched it uncritically countless times. In attempting to specify the socio-political and libidinal character of television in the United States at a relatively precise historical moment I find myself finally capable of taking a critical perspective on it. The following sequence appears at the opening and closing of every broadcast. First, a circle appears superimposed on the bustling scene of the CBS newsroom, teletype clattering. The circle is then traversed by a grid of equidistant lines quickly transforming the circle, as if by squeezing, into a sphere which begins to rotate. When viewed against the world map located on the newsroom wall a metonymic transfer allows us to recognize the sphere as the earth, measured and ensnared in a network of longitude and latitude-the abstract inscription of capitalist globalization. Abruptly (the entire sequence happens in a matter of seconds); the sphere begins to shrink as it is enclosed in an elliptical diamond signalling two events: the reduction of the world through media technology, and the entry of our gaze into the televised workshop of history. The second event is completed through our perceptual experience of the logo-signature's recession into the background, literally simulating the shift of our attention from the viewing surface to the depth of the image. As the figure recedes into the background the shrinkage causes the global grids to blur until the entire figure is transformed into an eye which comes to rest at the head of the printed titleThe CBS Evening News. This cyclopean eye, in the context of a daily overview of world events becomes the eye of power. It is the eye of a technologized panopticon, or what I would call supervision. More than just a figure for televised news, the CBS eye is an emblem of the general function of television not only today, but also for television in its early years, specifically in the 1950s. Let it also be said that I invoke it as a figure that assembles in condensed form most of the terms and concerns of the following analysis. Despite the dystopian or paranoid connotations that this connection activates, I do not wish to suggest that media technology poses as a monolithic agency of reaction to be cast off in despair by those interested in alternative cultural forms and emancipatory politics. By briefly laying out the socio-libidinal dynamics of a moment in the history of mass media the extent to which media technology remains a positive context for the generation of alternative cultural forms can be gauged. In order to persistently thematize the dialectic of participation and distance in the reception situation I am placing at the center of this exposition Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Show (MMC) which concretizes my own relation to the historical moment in question. Furthermore, by tracing out of this general context two theoretical positions that take very different stands on the political status of media" @default.
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- W2325052532 title "Of Mice and Kids" @default.
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