sentences:  Bolter and Grusin assert that "instead of trying to be in the presence of the objects of representation, the subject now defines immediacy as being in the presence of media".Bolter and Grusin provide insight into the interdependency of media and its integral role in understanding how "the remediation of reality has been built into our technologies of representation".Many thinkers are now working at the intersections of Marxism and media studies, and are attempting to tease out the various interrelations, contradictions, and possibilities inherent in these two conversations.