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Introduction

youth living in paranoiac times

Jan Jagodzinski

pp. 1-13

Abstract

This is the third book in a trilogy that began with Youth Fantasies (2004), which was followed by Music in Youth Culture (2005). In those first two books, a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework was put to use to theorize the complexity of youth, interrogated to some extent by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's (sometimes cited as D+G, but I am not consistent) challenge to Jacques Lacan's dominant position. I took popular media culture seriously, exploring films, the Internet, video games, and a particular selection of music (gangsta rap, Nü metal, grunge, grrrl culture, techno) to identify what I took to be post-Oedipal developments in youth where postadolescence has been culturally extended to blur clearcut distinctions of adulthood brought about by the global sociohistorical changes wrought by capitalism and its accompanying teletechnologies.

Publication details

Published in:

Jagodzinski Jan (2008) Television and youth culture: televised paranoia. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 1-13

DOI: 10.1057/9780230617230_1

Full citation:

Jagodzinski Jan (2008) Introduction: youth living in paranoiac times, In: Television and youth culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1–13.