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Post-Cinematic Bodies
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Abstract How is human embodiment transformed in an age of algorithms? How do post-cinematic media technologies such as AI, VR, and robotics target and re-shape our bodies? 'Post-Cinematic Bodies' grapples with these questions by attending both to mundane devices - such as smartphones, networked exercise mach... view more
How is human embodiment transformed in an age of algorithms? How do post-cinematic media technologies such as AI, VR, and robotics target and re-shape our bodies? 'Post-Cinematic Bodies' grapples with these questions by attending both to mundane devices - such as smartphones, networked exercise machines, and smart watches and other wearables equipped with heartrate sensors - as well as to new media artworks that rework such equipment to reveal to us the ways that our fleshly existences are increasingly up for grabs. Through an equally philosophical and interpretive analysis, the book aims to develop a new aesthetics of embodied experience that is attuned to a new age of predictive technology and metabolic capitalism.... view less
Keywords
body; consciousness; perception; artificial intelligence; algorithm; virtual reality; media theory
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
247 p.
Series
Configurations of Film Series
ISBN
978-3-95796-044-3
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed