Pixilated Practices
Media is a big part of our lives. We see and hear it everywhere. In this book Miller demonstrates how media has taken the place of ritual(s). Our everyday lives are constantly facilitated by media rituals. This media ritual process exists regardless of its content and is a phenomenon that overcomes our subjective experience with a constant flux of representations and seduction. Memory and mind are in a perpetual process of re-imaging, distortion, and violence. Human relationships can be comprised of sheer information sharing from any distance around the globe. The objective world around us is experienced and interpreted through the virtual worlds we are forced to participate in. The dialectic is barred and the flood of media images captures us in the univocal. Persons then understand that truth comes from their singular, isolated, and violated self. Therefore, the body in the real world feels foreign and we feel dissociated and anxious, reaching in a vain attempt for more media to fill and restore our bodily and spiritual needs. Our personhood and everything that we are lie under the influence of this media ritual process.
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Pixilated Practices
Media is a big part of our lives. We see and hear it everywhere. In this book Miller demonstrates how media has taken the place of ritual(s). Our everyday lives are constantly facilitated by media rituals. This media ritual process exists regardless of its content and is a phenomenon that overcomes our subjective experience with a constant flux of representations and seduction. Memory and mind are in a perpetual process of re-imaging, distortion, and violence. Human relationships can be comprised of sheer information sharing from any distance around the globe. The objective world around us is experienced and interpreted through the virtual worlds we are forced to participate in. The dialectic is barred and the flood of media images captures us in the univocal. Persons then understand that truth comes from their singular, isolated, and violated self. Therefore, the body in the real world feels foreign and we feel dissociated and anxious, reaching in a vain attempt for more media to fill and restore our bodily and spiritual needs. Our personhood and everything that we are lie under the influence of this media ritual process.
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Pixilated Practices

Pixilated Practices

by Christopher Peyton Miller
Pixilated Practices

Pixilated Practices

by Christopher Peyton Miller

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Overview

Media is a big part of our lives. We see and hear it everywhere. In this book Miller demonstrates how media has taken the place of ritual(s). Our everyday lives are constantly facilitated by media rituals. This media ritual process exists regardless of its content and is a phenomenon that overcomes our subjective experience with a constant flux of representations and seduction. Memory and mind are in a perpetual process of re-imaging, distortion, and violence. Human relationships can be comprised of sheer information sharing from any distance around the globe. The objective world around us is experienced and interpreted through the virtual worlds we are forced to participate in. The dialectic is barred and the flood of media images captures us in the univocal. Persons then understand that truth comes from their singular, isolated, and violated self. Therefore, the body in the real world feels foreign and we feel dissociated and anxious, reaching in a vain attempt for more media to fill and restore our bodily and spiritual needs. Our personhood and everything that we are lie under the influence of this media ritual process.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781725260221
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 07/15/2020
Pages: 118
Sales rank: 1,090,683
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Christopher Peyton Miller has advanced degrees in biblical studies, humanities and culture, religion, and interdisciplinary studies. His particular areas of interest include psychoanalytic theory, linguistics, East/West studies, and continental philosophy. He has been published in The Family Journal, The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Creative Transformation, and the International Journal of Complexity and Leadership Management. His most important role and greatest joy is spending time with his loving wife and three young children.

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“This book will be of interest to all Christians who recognize the dangers that mass media pose to the church.”

—Gerald McDermott, Emeritus Chair of Anglican Divinity at Beeson Divinity School



“A punchy and compact work, Christopher Miller narrates what I have seen in the classroom year after year: the dramatic loss of self and rise of anxiety by fusing ourselves with our screens. In a sad irony, he shows how anchoring ourselves to our devices actually unmoors us from the real. Miller excavates the details of our media rituals that Marshall McLuhan warned against a generation ago, what Miller calls the entrapment of media fusion. This book offers a sobering and unique diagnosis of our enslavement, handing us the hammer to swing at our shackles.”

—Dru Johnson, Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Hebraic Thought, The King’s College New York



“Recently the head of a Christian classical school exclaimed to me: ‘the internet is robbing the kids of their souls!’ In this book, Christopher Miller develops a robust and erudite argument about how this is so. He shows how the media—in all its variety—replaces meaningful ritual with an ersatz version that brings only confusion. He concludes the book by calling for a return to classical Christian ritual.”

—Robert Benne, Professor of Christian Ethics, Institute of Lutheran Theology, Brookings, South Dakota



“This book is exceptionally well-written and replete with original and thought-provoking ideas to reflect upon and consider. Dr. Miller’s writing has been informed by his wealth of knowledge across multiple disciplines, his many years as a therapist, and his genuine compassion. He makes what may be considered esoteric, very accessible. For anyone interested in probing deeper into the areas of media, ritual, and making meaning in these times, I enthusiastically recommend this book.”

—Alan Forrest, Professor, Department of Counselor Education, Radford University



“In these pages, Chris Miller brings an intellectual agility and extensive knowledge of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory to provide a fascinating study of what he terms fusion: the conscious and unconscious processes by which people’s subjectivities are “influenced heavily, violated, and ultimately stolen by experience with media.” Pixilated Practices is at times controversial and often brilliant in its analysis of the ways that media in the 21stcentury have infiltrated the fabric of human subjectivity. It is, ultimately, a cautionary tale infused with poetic prescription.”

—Diane Richard-Allerdyce, Union Institute & University

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