Table of Contents

Contents
Prelude: Democracy or mediarchy?

PART ONE: MEDIA
Chapter One: Naming mediarchy
Interlude One: Heterarchy 
Chapter Two: Approaching mediarchy
Interlude Two: Informational pharmacology  
Chapter Three: Unfolding mediarchy   
Interlude Three: Affective meteorologies   
Chapter Four: Equipping mediarchy    

PART TWO: MASS MEDIA 
Chapter Five: Massifying mediarchy   
Interlude: Populisms 
Chapter Six: Systematizing mediarchy
Interlude Five: Media powers
Chapter Seven: Decolonizing mediarchy

PART THREE: MEDIUM   
Chapter Eight: Archaeologizing mediarchy
Interlude: Accelerationisms
Chapter Nine: Stratifying mediarchy  
The politics of low frequencies
Chapter Ten: Magnetizing mediarchy
Interlude: Formative milieus    
Chapter Eleven: Zombifying mediarchy

PART FOUR: META-MEDIA
Chapter Twelve: Digitizing mediarchy
Interlude: Data commons   
Chapter Thirteen: Inhabiting mediarchy
Interlude: Mediarchic metamorphoses  
Chapter Fourteen: Surprising mediarchy

Postlude: Medianarchism?  
List of illustrations
Notes

About the Author

Yves Citton is Professor in Literature and Media at the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, co-editor of the journal Multitudes, and director of the ArTeC Graduate School in Paris.

Reviews

‘Mediarchy is a magnificent work of synthesis that brings together many different approaches to media. Citton boldly puts the analysis of media at the centre of social thought and shows just how many of the things we observe about our times fall into place through this perspective.’
McKenzie Wark, New School for Social Research  ‘Grounded and creative, this book proposes a timely synthesis of recent media theory. Citton questions the “transcontinental divide” that has informed Media Studies from its onset and in the process manages to breathe new life into some of the most fundamental questions facing media critics today. Mediarchy is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the complex, multitiered operationality of media in our modern world.’
Mark Hansen, Duke University

"a rich and thought-provoking book"
European Journal of Communication