Locating Media in Cultural Theories
Media, as constituting mass-produced vehicles of information, existed long before Benjamin made his proclamation about the end of a cultural epoch. 1 However, media’s sphere of influence has never diversified as quickly as in our current period. Media today replicate in unfamiliar ways everyday across the globe, 2 and in versions of the newly emerged media culture, the difficulty of conceptualizing the unthought is no less problematic than in metropolitan counterparts.
