Routledge Companion to Media and Risk

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Media and Risk: An Introduction
	Why Media and  Risk?
	Media/Mediation
	Risk and Media Across Disciplines
	Risk Histories
	Risk Institutions
	Risk Socialities
	Risk Worlds
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part I
	Historical Perspectives
		2 Has Risk a History?
			The Mediterranean Origin of Risk
			When Risk Navigated to the Americas
			When Risk Set Foot in the Americas
			Games of Chance: from Narrative to Probability Calculus
			Daniel Defoe and A Journal of the Plague Year
			Notes
			Works Cited
		3 Risk: The Origin of the Word in Medieval Commerce and Poetry
			From the Maritime Loan to Philosophy
			From the Risk of Death to Paradise
			From Poetry to Theology and Finance
			Notes
			Works Cited
		4 Insurance and the Language of Risk in Early Modern Political Thought
			The Rise of Risk in Early Modern Britain
			Adam Smith on Contempt for Risk and the Role of Joint-Stock Insurance Companies
			Defoe on Equity, Solidarity, and the Work of Friendly Societies
			Insurance, Commodification, and Property in Lives
			Acknowledgments
			Notes
			Works Cited
		5 Hazardous Individualism
			Notes
			Works Cited
Part II
	Expertise
		6 Risk Media in Medicine: The Rise of the Metaclinical Health App Ecosystem
			Introduction
			Defining Clinical and Metaclinical Spaces and Risk Media
			Digital Infrastructures of Quantified Selves
			Clinical Risk Media: From Personal to Population Health
			Metaclinical Risk Media Interfaces: Digital Health Apps
			Conclusion: Redefining “the Human” through Metaclinical Risk Media
			Works Cited
		7 The Algorithm Dispositif: Risk and Automation in the Age of #datapolitik
			Information: It’s Alive!
			Algorithmic Provocations
			An Impossible Conclusion
			Notes
			Works Cited
		8 The Perils of Migration: Countervailing Mediations of Risk at the EU’s Maritime Frontier
			The Mediterranean Mobility Conflict
			The Mediterranean Frontier’s Regime of (in)Visibility
			Exercising a Disobedient Gaze: The “Left-to-Die Boat” Case
			Documenting the Violence of Policies: Counter-Risk Analysis
			Disobedient Listening to Prevent Migrants’ Deaths at Sea
			Conclusion
			Notes
			Works Cited and Further Reading
		9 Mediating Expertise: Uncertain Risks of Electromagnetic Pollution
			“Uncertain Risks” from EMF
			Experts vis-à-vis Laypersons
			Counter-Expertise: Arguments among Experts
			Lay Expertise, Anecdotal Evidence, and Precautionary Principle
			Conclusion
			Notes
			Works Cited
Part III
	Times
		10 Preparedness Documents After the Fact
			Speculation as Knowledge Production: The Strange Temporality of Preparedness Documents
			Documentation as a World-Making Project
			Notes
			Works Cited
		11 “Is there a Ghost in the Computer?” A Spectrology of Uncanny Risks
			Domesticated Risk and Computers
			Computer Imaginaries
			Shock of Old Media
			Bhooter Preme Bhoot Howa
			Uncanny Risks
			Notes
			Works Cited
		12 New Media At Risk, or When The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
			Immateriality of Perceptual Fields
			Téléaction
			Medial Fabulation
			Digital Folds, or the Critical Rub of Écotechnie
			Anthropocenic Afterward
			Notes
			Works Cited
		13 Into the Beyond: A Conversation with Michael Madsen
Part IV
	Scale
		14 Chernobyl, Risk, and the Inter-Zone of the Anthropocene
			Sublime: Sputnik Religion and Nuclear Aesthetic
			Bifurcation: Containment, Conspiracy, and the Floating (Ukrainian) Remainder
			Terrain: Exposure and the “Stalking” of the Zone
			Anthropocene: The Zone is Us
			Notes
			Works Cited
			Media References
		15 Risk, Law, and Media: A Case of Climate Change
			Risk and Catastrophe: A “Time Scale Relevant to Plaintiffs”
			Refusal to Foreclose: Climate Change and a Livable Future
			Standing: Threshold Questions, Spatial Matters
			(Re)mediating Injury
			Causation and Social Ecology
			Redressability in the Context of Nonknowledge
			Producing the Future
			Acknowledgments
			Notes
			Works Cited
		16 Media/Meteōra
			A Fireball Falls
			Time of Meteōra
			Could It Happen Here on Earth?
			Scaling the Risk
			Always on Alert
			Notes
			Works Cited
Part V
	Virtuality
		17 Red Dot Sight
			Notes
			Works Cited
		18 The Safety
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		19 Tunnel Risk and the Mediation of Border Security Spectacle
			Border Security as Mediated Spectacle
			What Lies Beneath within Border Media Networks
			The Age of the Border Security Spectacle
			Notes
			Works Cited
		20 Floating Architectures: Fantasises of Safety in Oceanic Riskscapes
			Riskscape T(r)opologies
			Floating Architectures and Fantasies of Safety
			Conclusion: Lattices of Amphibious Survival
			Acknowledgment
			Notes
			Works Cited
		21 Corrections to the First Draft of History
Part VI
	Affect
		22 Social Media and the Social Question: Speculations on Risk Media Society
			Risk and Anxiety
			The Internet of People and Things
			Social Media and the Social Question
			Notes
			Works  Cited
		23 Your Brain on Screens: Neuronal Risk and Media Addiction
			Media Addiction and Brain Health
			Epileptiform Phenomena and Singularity
			Coda: The Expression of Singularity
			Acknowledgments
			Notes
			Works Cited
		24 Risk’s Fraught Mediascape
			Silence-Breaking:WikiLeaks and #MeToo
			Risk’s Production History and Gender Politics
			Documentary Comedy and Risk’s Gaga Feminism
			Notes
			Works Cited
Part VII
	Legitimacy
		25 'One little seed blowing in the wind': Risk Media in Trans-species Biogovernance
			Introduction
			Risk Mediator 1: Privatization
			Risk Mediator 2: Normalization
			Risk Mediator 3: Politicization
			Risk Mediator 4: Objectification
			Risk Mediator 5: Responsibilization
			Conclusion
			Note
			Acknowledgments
			Works Cited
		26 Reflections on Risk, Media, and the Reasonable Animated by a Trial by Jury
			Seduction, Sociality, and Event (First Post)
			The Moral State (Second Post)
			Feelings (Third Post)
			Meta-drama (Fourth Post)
			The Sorcerer (Fifth Post)
			No Way
			Acknowledgments
			Notes
			Works Cited
		27 Cruising Risk, Surviving Desire
			Acknowledgments
			Notes
			Works Cited
		28 Skin Out of the Game: Virtual Gambling in Novel Spaces
			Risk, Games, and Technology
			Skins
			Scandal
			Scrutiny
			Conclusion
			Notes
			Works Cited
Part VIII
	Disciplinary Modulations
		29 Risk as Aesthetic Virtue
			Novelty and Originality: The Economy of Aesthetic Risk-Taking
			From Providence to Probability: How Risk Came to Be an Aesthetic Virtue
			The Heroics of Control Loss: How Risk Works as Aesthetic Virtue
			Notes
			Works Cited
		30 Notes on Dissent and Risk
		31 Trigger Warnings and the Disciplining of Cinema and Media Pedagogy
			Campuses in Crisis
			Cinema and Media Studies and the Pedagogy of Shock
			Postscript, September 2018
			Notes
			Works Cited
		32 “A Path So Twisted”—Staying Off the Straight and Narrow
			A Path So Twisted
			Defeated and Gifted
			Conclusion
			Works Cited
		33 The Risk of Tolerance: Feminist Killjoys, the Creative Humanities, and the Belligerent University
			“Toleration”
			Activism and Passivism in the Realms of Art and the Humanities
			Flattening the Topography: Between Art and Arms Races
			Resisting Resilience
			Notes
			Works Cited
Index