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The Digital Logic of Death: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media

Autor Dr Steven Pustay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 2022
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.In The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay skillfully makes visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that moving images play in shaping our understanding of mortality. This relationship, he argues, is made all the more urgent by the technologies of the digital age, which have profoundly altered our ability to represent and contemplate death through moving images, resulting in an entirely new cultural logic of death. To draw out this new logic, Pustay presents accessible readings of otherwise dense and difficult philosophical approaches to death - such as those found in existentialism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory - by reading them through the lens of contemporary media. From art-house films like Irréversible and The Fountain to blockbusters like the Matrix trilogy, from television commercials for M&M's to pay-cable dramas like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, from first-person shooters like Bioshock to indie-games like LIMBO, Pustay shows how moving images have shifted our understanding of death in general and our recognition of our own finiteness in particular.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501372384
ISBN-10: 1501372386
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 42 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Considers the role of death in multiple media, from films to TV to video games, such as The Matrix trilogy and Limbo

Notă biografică

Steven Pustay has taught film theory and world cinema at colleges in Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Colorado, USA.

Cuprins

Introduction: The Digital Logic of Death1. The Trauma of Digital Death2. The Digital Path to Death3. The Potential of Digital Death4. The Event of Digital DeathConclusion: The Fractal Logic of LifeBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This book offers an original understanding of death in the digital age where simulations of death are replacing our understanding of death and what it means to be human. Via well-chosen case studies and thought provoking observations it argues that the digital logic of death actually emphasizes that our finitude is (and remains in the digital age) what makes us human.