Spectacular Posthumanism
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4008-6 (ISBN)
Spectacular Posthumanism argues that special and visual effects images produce a digital, posthuman vernacular, one which generates competing fantasies about the utopian and dystopian potential of a nonhuman future. As humanity grapples with such heady issues as catastrophic climate change, threats of anonymous cyber warfare, an increasing reliance on autonomous computing systems, genetic manipulation of both humans and nonhumans, and the promise of technologically enhanced bodies, the anxieties related to these issues register in popular culture. Through the process of compositing humans and nonhumans into a seemingly seamless whole, digital images visualize a utopian fantasy in which flesh and information might easily coexist and cohabitate with each other. These images, however, also exhibit the dystopic anxieties that develop around this fantasy. Relevant to our contemporary moment, Spectacular Posthumanism both diagnoses and offers a critique of this fantasy, arguing that this posthuman imagination overlooks the importance of embodiment and lived experience.
Drew Ayers is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film at Eastern Washington University, USA. His research focuses on visual culture, digital technology, visual effects, cinema, and nonhuman theory, and he has previously been published in animation, Configurations, Film Criticism, and several edited anthologies. Ayers also serves as a board member and programmer for the Spokane International Film Festival.
Introduction: Vernacular Posthumanism and VFX
Part I: Hybrid Bodies
1. David Cronenberg’s New Flesh
2. Performance Capture’s Spectacle of Self
Part II: Digital Bodies and Authenticity
3. Digital Nudity, Reanimation and De-Aging
4. Digital Space, Digital Agents and Digital Swarms
Part III: Machinic and Digital Spectacle
5. Kubrick’s Machine Vision
6. Planet Earth’s Spectacular HDTV
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 24.04.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 24 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 517 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-4008-5 / 1501340085 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-4008-6 / 9781501340086 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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