Abstract
Catastrophe and Television in the Wake of Katrina: Working through the shift in the ideological parameters of the television form from conjunction to flow, as suggested in Raymond Williams' essays, the author argues that conjunction is still available and can denaturalize the flow form as a determinate paradigm of narrative incoherence and "full" subsumption. The argument of the essay traverses the formal, spatial and regional coordinates of the flow form, especially in disaster reportage on BBC World and the Indian media, which recompose imperial "worlds" and recast resistant gendered agencies. The essay proposes that flow can congeal into what the author terms "viewing configurations," and that within the regime of neoliberal capitalism conjunction can be rethought in the registers of global connection and a layering of gendered temporalities, as both a residual and an emergent form.
Recommended Citation
Sangari, Kumkum
(2009)
"Conjunction and flow: the gendered temporalities of (media) disaster,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.335
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol2/iss1/6