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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

Volume 1, 2004 - Issue 2
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(Re)locating pleasure in media studies: toward an erotics of reading

Brian L. Ott View further author information
Pages 194-212
Published online: 17 Jul 2006
 
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(Re)locating pleasure in media studies: toward an erotics of reading

Abstract

ab-stract, (n.) 1. a summary of points (as of a writing) usu. presented in skeletal form. (adj.) 1. difficult to understand: abstruse. (vt.) 1. dissociate, remove, separate. This essay concerns how language is, at once, structured (producing meaning) and infinite (destabilizing meaning). Both functions of language are tied to pleasure. Contemporary critical media studies, it is argued, has attacked the pleasure (plaisir) of language's structuring function while simultaneously repressing the pleasure (jouissance) of language's dismantling function. Is this to(o) abstract?

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Notes on contributors

Brian L. Ott Brian L. Ott is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University. The scriptor wishes to acknowledge all future readers for their role in authoring this Text. A (per)version of this text was performed at the 2003 Western States Communication Association annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. Correspondence to: Brian L. Ott, Department of Speech Communication, 204 Eddy Building, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1783, USA. Email: brian.ott@ colostate.edu

Brian L. Ott is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University. The scriptor wishes to acknowledge all future readers for their role in authoring this Text. A (per)version of this text was performed at the 2003 Western States Communication Association annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. Correspondence to: Brian L. Ott, Department of Speech Communication, 204 Eddy Building, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1783, USA. Email: brian.ott@ colostate.edu

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