Digital and other virtualities : renegotiating the image / edited by Antony Bryant and Griselda Pollock.
Contributor(s): Bryant, Antony [editor.]
| Pollock, Griselda [editor.].
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BookSeries: New encounters (London, England): Publisher: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2010Description: xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1845115686 (paperback); 9781845115685 (paperback) ; 9781845115678 (hardback); 1845115678 (hardback).Subject(s): Virtual reality | Technology and the arts | Computer art | Digital cinematography | Digital imagesDDC classification: 776 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 776 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00229958 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the groundedness and referentiality of the concept of the index. In this transdisciplinary book, major artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and contemporary art. Antony Bryant, Juli Carson, N. Katherine Hayles, Anna Johnson, Mary Kelly, Brian Massumi, Claire Pajaczkowska, Griselda Pollock, Adrian Rifkin, Martha Rosler, Alison Rowley, Trinh T.
Minha, Samuel Weber, and Paul Willemen, draw on concrete practices, ranging from film, video and chatrooms to airport spaces, conceptual art and textiles, to offer critically engaged, sometimes sceptical, analyses of contemporary image worlds in the light of a continuing allegiance to grounded histories and critical practice.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-276) and index.
Traumas of code / N. Katherine Hayles -- Of mice and mien : or perhaps of mouses and mien? (anyway with apologies to John Steinbeck) / Antony Bryant -- A virtual indication / Samuel Weber -- The future birth of the affective fact : the political ontology of threat / Brian Massumi -- For a comparative film studies / Paul Willemen -- Night passage : the depth of time / Trinh T. Minh-ha interviewed by Alison Rowley -- Tension, time and tenderness : indexical traces of touch in textiles / Claire Pajaczkowska -- Look, no wires! Some notes around the idea of a sign (1, 2, nothing) / Adrian Rifkin -- Airport / Martha Rosler -- Dossier : Mary Kelly Circa 1968. On fidelity : art, politics, passion and event / Mary Kelly ; Legacies of resistance / Juli Carson -- Mary Kelly's Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi : virtual trauma and indexical witness in the age of mediatic spectacle / Griselda Pollock -- Nomad-words / Anna Johnson
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. xi)
- Series Preface-New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts (p. xiii)
- Editors' Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Traumas of Code (p. 23)
- 2 Of Mice and Mien: Or Perhaps of Mouses and Mien? (anyway with apologies to John Steinbeck) (p. 42)
- 3 A Virtual Indication (p. 63)
- 4 The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat (p. 79)
- 5 For a Comparative Film Studies (p. 93)
- 6 Night Passage: The Depth of Time (p. 111)
- 7 Tension, Time and Tenderness: Indexical Traces of Touch in Textiles (p. 134)
- 8 Look, No Wires! Some Notes Around the Idea of a Sign (1, 2, Nothing) (p. 149)
- 9 Airport (p. 167)
- 10 Dossier: Mary Kelly Circa 1968 (p. 183)
- On Fidelity: Art, Politics, Passion and Event (p. 189)
- Legacies of Resistance (p. 194)
- 11 Mary Kelly's Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Virtual Trauma and Indexical Witness in the Age of Mediatic Spectacle (p. 200)
- 12 Nomad-Words (p. 217)
- Notes (p. 237)
- Bibliography (p. 264)
- List of Contributors (p. 277)
- Index (p. 282)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Antony Bryant is Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University and author of Thinking Informatically (2006) and co-editor of The Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007).Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds and author of Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2007).