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The Cinema of Things - Globalization and the Posthuman Object (Hardcover)
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The Cinema of Things - Globalization and the Posthuman Object (Hardcover)
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This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as
represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when
France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the
twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by
Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the
Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic
depictions of the ways in which human beings are prosthetically
engaged with life beyond the self in the global age: by
hyperconsumption; by structures of racial and sexual
objectification that reduce people designated as "others" to
objects of fascination, sexual gratification, warfare, or labor;
and by information technology that replaces human agency with
encoding. Consumer culture, a key feature of globalization, posits
that we must supplement ourselves with commodities without which we
would otherwise be incomplete: but these prostheses, rather than
enhancing us, end up creating the insufficiencies they were meant
to overcome. We are engulfed by objects, to the extent that we
ourselves are becoming objectified. At the same time, objects,
especially technological objects, are becoming increasingly
autonomous, assuming roles that were once the preserve of human
agency. We are becoming the objects of globalization, and cinema
imaginatively represents this transformation, but it also offers us
the possibility of retaining our humanity in the process.
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