Media ecology is simultaneously superstructural and infrastructural

Evidence

This last level is at once the most superficial (superstructural), since it only seems to be the ‘reflection’ of the other four, and the most fundamental (infrastructural), since it is this that decides to what we pay our attention (or not). Whether the things that are most dear to us blossom or are crushed depends on this. This is why attention ecosophy is a question of vital importance to us. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 88

Categorization

• XREF: The superstructural/infrastructural inversion echoes Marx’s base-superstructure debate, and Citton’s reversal is a rhetorical move recognisable from media theory. — connects to: Postmodern art operates within media systems rather than unifying them into transcendent wholes — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 381
• QUESTION: What exact structural relation makes media ecology both reflection and determinant? The paradox needs unpacking.

Broader Connections

• Postmodern art operates within media systems rather than unifying them into transcendent wholes #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 381