Making enemies with media. Issue 1 (March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Packer, Jeremy; Reeves, Joshua
• Other Names: Conley Donovan guest-editor.; Burroughs Benjamin guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Communication and the public. Volume 5:Issue 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 16
• Page End: 25
• Publication Date: 2020-03
• Subjects: Media epistemology -- media history -- surveillance; Communication -- Periodicals; Communication -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 302.2
• DOI: 10.1177/2057047320950635
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0473

Abstract

This article examines the role of media technology in determining preconstitutive enemies of the political order. To do so, it analyzes how discipline-specific methods of enemy detection, analysis, and neutralization correspond to different media environments. Media have a diagnostic and prescriptive significance: not only do they locate enemies that conform to their own unique standards of measurement, they also offer reprogramming resources that accentuate their own peculiar biases and capacities. Episodes in the history of biology and psychology are examined for evidence of this media logic.