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.
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