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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Always
connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But
what about those moments when media cease to function
properly, when messages go beyond the sender and
receiver to become excluded from the world of
communication itself—those messages that state: “There
will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R.
Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our
usual understanding of media and mediation on its head
by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the
impossibility of communication is integral to
communication itself—instances they call
excommunication.</p>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In three linked
essays,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Excommunication</i> pursues
this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face
of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by
contemplating the possibilities of communication with
the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original
theory of mediation based on classical literature and
philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map
out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation
today—mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as
network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway’s
classification scheme by examining the concept of
excommunication through the secret link between the
modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Charting a
trajectory of examples from H. P. Lovecraft to Meister
Eckhart, Thacker explores those instances when one
communicates or connects with the inaccessible, dubbing
such modes of mediation “haunted” or “weird” to
underscore their inaccessibility. Finally, Wark evokes
the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics
of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the
traditional left. He posits a critical theory that
celebrates heresy and that is distinct from those that
now venerate Saint Paul.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reexamining
commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and
communication,<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Excommunication</i> offers
a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a
theory of mediation adequate to our present condition.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“At a moment when
media theory seems both ubiquitous and amorphous, more
necessary than ever, yet often trapped in old paradigms
or infatuated with new technology,<span
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>makes a
timely and provocative intervention. There’s so much
intellectual ferment in this historically informed,
radically contemporary volume that it might well be a
founding document—has the New York school of media
theory finally arrived?”</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Communicational
media permeate every aspect of our lives. But do we
really know what media are? And do we really grasp
what's at stake in every act of communication? In this
book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and
McKenzie Wark explore the obscure but fascinating
origins and esoteric limits of communicational media and
suggest helpful ways that we might be able to experience
and use them differently.”</div>
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