The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema

Daniel Strutt

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2019

The Digital Image and Reality

Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema

Daniel Strutt

In the series Film Culture in Transition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048538652

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About this book

This book explores how digital image-making is integral to emergent modes of metaphysical reflection - to speculative futurism, optimistic nihilism, and ethical plasticity.

Author / Editor information

Strutt Daniel :

Dan Strutt is a lecturer in the department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he teaches film theory and analysis alongside social, cultural and economic theory. Having worked on research projects with Creativeworks London, CREATe and the AHRC Creative Economy Programme, he also engages in innovative performance production work with contemporary digital audio-visual artists.

Reviews

"Digital technology in the hands of artists can engender new strategies of resistance to the systematizing effects of all technology by revealing the inherent plasticity of any worldview. [...] These same techniques will likely be available to any creator in the near future, and it is Stutt’s convincing optimism that sees in this powerful world-shaping tool an empowerment and a potential 'ethic of exploration in an unstable, virtual, and sublime world.'"
- Will Luers, Leonardo, Vol. 55, No. 5

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
1. Cinema’s Foundational Frissons Dan Strutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. The Affective Synthesis of Reality by Digital Images Dan Strutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. ‘A Digital Frontier to Reshape the Human Condition’ : Virtual Border Spaces and Affective Embodiment in Tron and Enter the Void Dan Strutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Dynamic Digital Spaces, Bodies, and Forces Dan Strutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Reality Sutures, Simulation, and Digital Realism Dan Strutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
6. A Digital Nihilism: Ethical Reflections Dan Strutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 20
Keywords: Digital; affect; metaphysics; post-cinematic; ontology

eBook

Published: September 10, 2019
ISBN: 9789048538652