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The Digital Logic of Death - Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media (Hardcover)
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The Digital Logic of Death - Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media (Hardcover)
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This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
In The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay skillfully makes
visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that
moving images play in shaping our understanding of mortality. This
relationship, he argues, is made all the more urgent by the
technologies of the digital age, which have profoundly altered our
ability to represent and contemplate death through moving images,
resulting in an entirely new cultural logic of death. To draw out
this new logic, Pustay presents accessible readings of otherwise
dense and difficult philosophical approaches to death - such as
those found in existentialism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory
- by reading them through the lens of contemporary media. From
art-house films like Irreversible and The Fountain to blockbusters
like the Matrix trilogy, from television commercials for M&M's
to pay-cable dramas like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, from
first-person shooters like Bioshock to indie-games like LIMBO,
Pustay shows how moving images have shifted our understanding of
death in general and our recognition of our own finiteness in
particular.
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