The Digital Logic of Death - Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2021
Authors:	Steven Pustay
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-6408-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
LSN:	1-5013-6408-1
Barcode:	9781501364082

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