{"product_id":"seriality","title":"Seriality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough formal readings of media texts alongside Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the dialectical method of G.W.F. Hegel, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism, \u003ci\u003eSeriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life \u003c\/i\u003eshifts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260707479896,"sku":"9798216197799","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798216197799_7e3e587b-d063-4d56-af73-72a16258eb24.jpg?v=1779869738","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/seriality","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}