{"product_id":"seriality-9798216197782","title":"Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The serial is everywhere. Commonly identified by the segmented release structure of an ongoing narrative – from installments of Victorian novels to TV episodes to comic books – seriality names the spread of installment-based storytelling across a range of media. However, Ryan Engley argues that seriality is not only a narrative structure but also a psychic structure. Seriality – in its dependence on gaps, delay, and constraint – names the fundamental trauma of contemporary life: that there exists an intrinsic relation between self and other, a relation that is often difficult to see and difficult to bear.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Through formal readings of media texts alongside Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the dialectical method of G.W.F. Hegel, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life \u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;shifts the focus of seriality studies. In so doing, Engley presents a rebuttal to the common refrain that our lives, like contemporary media, have become endlessly fragmented. Rather, Engley finds, we have become radically – serially – connected.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9798216197782\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Professor Ryan Engley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50078038130938,"sku":"9798216197782","price":17.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9798216197782.jpg?v=1786811131","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/seriality-9798216197782","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}