Discourse Volume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2023 (Media & Paranoia: New Attentional Forms)

Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.

Discourse Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2023)
SPECIAL ISSUE: Media & Paranoia: New Attentional Forms
Edited by Clemens Apprich and Joshua Neves

Introduction: Paranoia and New Attentional Forms
Clemens Apprich and Joshua Neves

Taking the Reparative Pill: Cyberspace, Machine Learning, and the Closure of the Real
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Paranoia and Fantastic Blackness
Jade E. Davis

You Wasted a Good Crisis! Speculation, Paranoia, and Discipline in Finance 
Johannes Bruder

Counterforensics/Counterlogistics: Seeing the Rot
Patrick Brian Smith

Echo Chambers of Paranoid Knowledge: On Cyberwar Epistemology
Svitlana Matviyenko and Jaime Lee Kirtz

Power and Paranoia in the Age of Pornhub
Becky Holt

Afterword: Paranoia, or, Assassins on the Run
Ned Rossiter

Contributors