[Linganth] Frank Cody on his new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Frank Cody will be visiting the CaMP virtual reading group on Friday,
September 29th at noon EST.  To whet your appetite, here is his
conversation with Shikhar Goel about his book, *The News Event: Popular
Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization. University of Chicago Press*.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
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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