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This book dives into the mise-en-scene of contemporary China to
explore the "becoming cinema" of Chinese cities, societies, and
subjectivities. Set in the wake of China's radical and rapid period
of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating
itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines
empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a
dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture
bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different
scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural
assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented
history museum; China's "first and best" Sino-foreign university; a
new "Old town"; and weird gamified "any-now(here)-spaces." Together
these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon
the broader picture sweeping up greater China.
This book dives into the mise-en-scene of contemporary China to
explore the "becoming cinema" of Chinese cities, societies, and
subjectivities. Set in the wake of China's radical and rapid period
of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating
itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines
empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a
dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture
bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different
scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural
assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented
history museum; China's "first and best" Sino-foreign university; a
new "Old town"; and weird gamified "any-now(here)-spaces." Together
these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon
the broader picture sweeping up greater China.
Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like
Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker
to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular
creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that
digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent
alien. If this were not enough to shiver ye timbers, the book
engages with contemporary discourses of posthumanism, speculative
realism, object-oriented ontology and animal studies to suggest
that humans are the products of media rather than media being the
products of humans. Including case studies of films by Denis
Villeneuve, Park Chan-wook and Celine Sciamma, The Squid Cinema
From Hell also provides a daring engagement with various media
beyond cinema, including literature, music videos, 4DX,
advertising, websites, YouTube, Artificial Intelligence and more.
Zounds! This unique and Lovecraftian book will change the way you
think about, and with, our contemporary, media-saturated world. For
as we contemplate the abyss, the abyss looks back at us - and
chthulumedia, or media at the end of human times, begin to emerge.
Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like
Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker
to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular
creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that
digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent
alien. If this were not enough to shiver ye timbers, the book
engages with contemporary discourses of posthumanism, speculative
realism, object-oriented ontology and animal studies to suggest
that humans are the products of media rather than media being the
products of humans. Including case studies of films by Denis
Villeneuve, Park Chan-wook and Celine Sciamma, The Squid Cinema
From Hell also provides a daring engagement with various media
beyond cinema, including literature, music videos, 4DX,
advertising, websites, YouTube, Artificial Intelligence and more.
Zounds! This unique and Lovecraftian book will change the way you
think about, and with, our contemporary, media-saturated world. For
as we contemplate the abyss, the abyss looks back at us - and
chthulumedia, or media at the end of human times, begin to emerge.
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