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Notes

Chapter outlines

1 Reality TV is used throughout this book with a capitalized R in
order to highlight its essentially manufactured, faux-reality quality.
For useful overviews of the Reality TV phenomenon see Hill
(2005), Holmes and Jermyn (2004), Kilbourn (2003), Murray and
Ouellette (2004) and Biressi and Nunn (2004).

Introduction

1 For a discussion of the complex relationship between the imma-
terial qualities of media technologies and their profoundly physi-
cal effects see our previous work Digital Matters: The Culture and
Theory of the Matrix (Harris and Taylor 2005).
2 See Lash (2002) for an example of this theoretical embracing of
immanence and for a critical response see Taylor (2006).
3 For useful recent overviews of these fields see Lacey (2002), Ross
(2003) and Staiger (2005).
4 See McGuigan (1992) for a full discussion of this topic.
5 Barker and Brooks develop this theme further in Knowing Audi-
ences (1998) where they link Judge Dredd fans with the Utopian-
ism of the Chiliasts as initially explored in Karl Mannheim’s
Ideology and Utopia.
6 Mentioned in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment
(2002), Scylla and Charybdis are two Greek mythological sea
creatures that represent a classical source for the colloquial
expressions ‘between a rock and a hard place’ or ‘between the
Devil and the deep blue sea’.

Chapter 1

1 All references to Benjamin’s Essay are made to sections of the
Essay rather than page numbers, on the assumption that the
majority of readers will be referring to such web-based resources
as http://bid.berkeley.edu/bidclass/readings/benjamin.html
2 See Harris and Taylor (2005) for a book-length treatment of the
issue of im/materiality in a technological world.

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