mediatisation

The ‘node of reality’ is not even some residual or surplus (Lacanian) capital ‘R’ Real, which could resist the totalising forces of mediatisation.

Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

All that remains of the pragmatic arrangements of the mighty Congress of Vienna is the mediatisation of the petty German princes.

Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

These independent sovereigns became subjects; and either swelled, by their mediatisation, the territories of some already powerful potentate, or transmuted into a state of importance some more fortunate petty ruler than themselves, whose independence, through the exertions of political intrigue or family influence, had been preserved inviolate.

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Because of the mediatisation and the impact it will have on

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RHÉAL SÉGUIN 2010

Bifo adds to these ruins of modern democracy the destruction of modern subjectivity, especially under the impact of successive waves of mediatisation, leading to what he calls the video-electronic and connective generations who are subject to fundamental psychic mutations:

Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2009

He accuses media and cultural studies again for being to optimistic towards enhancing mediatisation and for ignoring studies that show negative outcomes of it.

Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org 2009