[Linganth] The News Event - Frank Cody - in two weeks

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

We will be chatting with Frank Cody in two weeks and engaging with his new
book, *The News Event*.


He has asked us to read chapter 5.  Please read as much as you can, but do
feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.


The reading can be found here:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U8KL_PMVMOmrSZt6sQG_6zizaoZAPQ7D/view?usp=drive_link

The meeting will be *12-1 pm*  EST on September 29th, and can be

reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana


Press blurb: In the hypermediated world of Tamil Nadu, Francis Cody studies
how “news events” are made.

Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a “news
event” is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in
the news and the event of the news coverage itself. In *The News Event*,
Francis Cody focuses on how imaginaries of popular sovereignty have been
remade through the production and experience of such events. Political
sovereignty is thoroughly mediated by the production of news, and subjects
invested in the idea of democracy are remarkably reflexive about the role
of publicly circulating images and texts in the very constitution of their
subjectivity. The law comes to stand as both a limit and positive condition
in this process of event making, where acts of legal and extralegal
repression of publication can also become the stuff of news about news
makers. When the subjects of news inhabit multiple participant roles in the
unfolding of public events, when the very technologies of recording and
circulating events themselves become news, the act of representing a
political event becomes difficult to disentangle from that of participating
in it. This, Cody argues, is the crisis of contemporary news making: the
news can no longer claim exteriority to the world on which it reports.
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