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Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image
Pollock G And Bryan
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Description for Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image
Paperback. Examines the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and contemporary art. Editor(s): Bryant, Antony; Pollock, Griselda. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white halftones, maps, figures. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 694.
If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the groundedness and referentiality of the concept of the index. In this transdisciplinary book, major artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and ... Read more
If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the groundedness and referentiality of the concept of the index. In this transdisciplinary book, major artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845115685
SKU
V9781845115685
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About Pollock G And Bryan
Antony Bryant is Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University and author of 'Thinking Informatically' (2006) and co-editor of 'The Handbook of Grounded Theory' (2007). Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds and author of 'Encounters in the ... Read more
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