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The Digital Logic of Death
- Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media
Engelsk Hardback
The Digital Logic of Death
- Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media
Engelsk Hardback

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In the open access book, 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.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781501364082
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501364081
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
28 jan 2021
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
158mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Oplagsdato:
28 jan 2021
Forfatter(e):
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