The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema (1) (Film Culture in Transition)

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Synopsis
The media technologies that surround and suffuse our everyday life profoundly affect our relation to reality. Philosophers since Plato and Aristotle have sought to understand the complex influence of apparently simple tools of expression on our understanding and experience of the world, time, space, materiality and energy. The Digital Image and Reality takes up this crucial philosophical task for our digital era. This rich yet accessible work argues that when new visual technologies arrive to represent and simulate reality, they give rise to nothing less than a radically different sensual image of the world. Through engaging with post-cinematic content and the new digital formats in which it appears, Strutt uncovers and explores how digital image-making is integral to emergent modes of metaphysical reflection - to speculative futurism, optimistic nihilism, and ethical plasticity. Ultimately, he prompts the reader to ask whether the impact of digital image processes might go even beyond our subjective consciousness of reality, towards the synthesis of objective actuality itself.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
248 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040797389
Related ISBNs:
9789462987135, 9781003705802, 9781040781050, 9781041187653
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
D. Strutt / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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