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Global Media Apocalypse. Pleasure, Violence and the Cultural Imaginings of Doom, Jeff Lewis, Palgrave MacmillanPRESENTATIONThe modern world has become trapped between fantasies of infinite bliss and the prospects of total global collapse. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis. Paying particular attention to the role of digital and networked communication systems, Jeff Lewis presents an analysis of mediated imaginings of many of the world's most pressing problems, including consumerism, ecological disaster, global power shifts, terrorism, refugees, borders and cultural warfare. An accessible analysis of a world teetering on the edge of systemic collapse, the book offers a powerful rendering of many of the world's most challenging and potentially devastating problems, presenting explanations and solutions that are both original and starkly provocative.CONTENTPrefaceIntroduction: Out of the 9/11 DecadeNew Media-Old Empires: Celebrity, Sex and Revolutions of KnowingUnder the Volcano: The Cultural Ecology of NatureHyper-Pleasure: Consumer Rituals and Transactions of DesireMenace: Westernism, Media and the Cultural Ecology of ViolenceAfter the Apocalypse: Refugees, Human Rights and the Global Media FutureConclusionPeaceReferencesAUTHORJeff Lewis is Director of the Human Security Research Program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published numerous journal articles and books, including Cultural Studies, Language Wars, Bali's Silent Crisis, and Crisis in the Global Mediasphere.