Dean, Jodi

Bio Sketch

Jodi Dean is an American political theorist (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) whose work addresses the politics of communication, media, and the contemporary public sphere. She coined "communicative capitalism" to describe how networked communication forecloses, rather than enables, democratic politics.

Key Works

• "Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics" (2005, Cultural Politics).
• Publicity's Secret (2002); Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009); The Communist Horizon (2012).

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Communicative Capitalism
• Spectacle
• Semiocapitalism

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Dean matters to Geoffrey's spectacle & iconic architecture, semiotics & representation, and noopolitics areas: her account of circulation, interpassivity, and the foreclosure of politics provides a critical framework for understanding digital/Instagram-era architectural reception and the spectacular circulation of images as a depoliticizing force.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics
• Spectacle, Simulation, and the Selfie: Revisiting Baudrillard's Simulation and Hyperreality