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Dean is asking the right questions about online life Wecertainly need vigilance and critique to help us resist dotcomcharisma, and no one is fiercer or smarter than Dean on thisfront. LAReview of Books Jodi Dean s Blog Theory takes as its proximatesubject the eponymous blog and its living death whatis offered is both simple and, oddly enough, also hopeful. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory If Ballard invited the 20th century viewer to witness their ownmass atrocity exhibition, we now have the update for the 21stcentury: Jodi Dean's demolition job of the Internet as we know it.With Blog Theory we can finally terminate the hype ofblogging and seriously engage the deeply distracted condition ofthe networked present. The incestuous relationship betweenjournalism and bloggers is exposed to make way for criticalreflections on techniques of self-management for ourall-too-fragile identities. Geert Lovink Blog Theory is refreshingly free of received ideas aboutthe wonderful new world of media. Jodi Dean manages the difficultart of being critical of new media without becoming a crankycurmudgeon. She uses psychoanalytic concepts to produce a synopticview of the decline of symbolic efficiency under communicativecapitalism, and the way the blogosphere participates in thisdissipation of the totems and tokens of what we once thought of asthe public sphere. She clears the way for imagining the politics ofmedia by other means. McKenzie Wark, New School University

"""Dean is asking the right questions about online life … We certainly need vigilance and critique to help us resist dotcom charisma, and no one is fiercer or smarter than Dean on this front."" LA Review of Books ""Jodi Dean’s Blog Theory takes as its proximate subject the eponymous blog—and its living death … what is offered is both simple and, oddly enough, also hopeful."" Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory ""If Ballard invited the 20th century viewer to witness their own mass atrocity exhibition, we now have the update for the 21st century: Jodi Dean's demolition job of the Internet as we know it. With Blog Theory we can finally terminate the hype of blogging and seriously engage the deeply distracted condition of the networked present. The incestuous relationship between journalism and bloggers is exposed to make way for critical reflections on techniques of self-management for our all-too-fragile identities."" Geert Lovink ""Blog Theory is refreshingly free of received ideas about the wonderful new world of media. Jodi Dean manages the difficult art of being critical of new media without becoming a cranky curmudgeon. She uses psychoanalytic concepts to produce a synoptic view of the decline of symbolic efficiency under communicative capitalism, and the way the blogosphere participates in this dissipation of the totems and tokens of what we once thought of as the public sphere. She clears the way for imagining the politics of media by other means."" McKenzie Wark, New School University"

If Ballard invited the 20th century viewer to witness their own mass atrocity exhibition, we now have the update for the 21st century: Jodi Dean's demolition job of the Internet as we know it. With Blog Theory we can finally terminate the hype of blogging and seriously engage the deeply distracted condition of the networked present. The incestuous relationship between journalism and bloggers is exposed to make way for critical reflections on techniques of self-management for our all-too-fragile identities. Geert Lovink Blog Theory is refreshingly free of received ideas about the wonderful new world of media. Jodi Dean manages the difficult art of being critical of new media without becoming a cranky curmudgeon. She uses psychoanalytic concepts to produce a synoptic view of the decline of symbolic efficiency under communicative capitalism, and the way the blogosphere participates in this dissipation of the totems and tokens of what we once thought of as the public sphere. She clears the way for imagining the politics of media by other means. McKenzie Wark, New School University

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Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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