The Digital Logic of Death
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 prof...
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Bloomsbury Academic
2022
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-773662025-07-31T00:46:25Z The Digital Logic of Death Pustay, Steven Social Science Media Studies Social Science Death & Dying Performing Arts Film History & Criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBZ Sociology: death and dying thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism 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. 2022-01-16T04:01:29Z 2022-01-16T04:01:29Z 2022-01-15T05:31:14Z 2021 book OCN: 1242062779 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52458 9781501364082 9781501364068 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77366 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52458/14/9781350167476.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52458/14/9781350167476.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52458/14/9781350167476.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52458/14/9781350167476.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781501364051 10.5040/9781501364051 f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 Knowledge Unlatched 9781501364082 9781501364068 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books Bloomsbury Academic open access |
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