Avoiding the Subject : Media Culture and the Object Frontmatter Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Influence of Anxiety Chapter 1: The Aesthetic Object Chapter 2: The Love Object Chapter 3: The Elusive Object Chapter 4: The Media(ted) Object Chapter 5: The Shared Object Chapter 6: The Moveable Object Chapter 7: The Foreign Object Chapter 8: The Abject Object Conclusion: A Spanner in the Works Notes Index What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter subjectivity What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history What can our local bus route tell us about the fortification of the West What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis of contemporary community And what can unauthorized pictures of Osama Bin Laden tell us about new methods of popular propaganda These are only some of the thought provoking questions raised in Avoiding the Subject which highlights the feedback loops between philosophy technology and politics in todays mediascape