Media Technologies and Posthuman Intimacy

✍ Scribed by Jan Stasieńko

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 305
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Constructing a theory of intimacy describing processes occurring between a ‘human’ subject and information creations, Jan Stasieńko shows in what way and in what phases that relationship is built and what its nature is.
He discusses technologies and genres related to the construction of a new television message (teleprompter, interactive television forms appearing both in the analogue and digital eras), composition of the film image and specificity of cinematic technologies (peep show, hybrid animation, digital visual effects). Also new-media technologies and genres will be discussed (for example, aspects relating to computer games and web portals making video materials available). This diversity is prompted by the desire to show that the building of intimacy protocols is not the domain of the digital era, and on the other hand, that the posthumanism of media apparatus is a wide-ranging problem, i.e. the area encompasses various vehicles findable throughout various historical periods.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Cinematic Intimacies
1 A kaleidoscope of pleasure: the erotic peep show as a game of subjects
2 Animation and the origins of interbeing intimacy
3 The cyborg-cinema and the layer-man: film technologies as vehicles of posthumanism
Part 2 Tele-visions
4 The Teleprompter and the posthuman repositioning of the gaze
5 Posthumanism through interaction: intimacies, gaze and collective creations in Winky Dink and You
6 Television phone-in quiz shows as vehicles for deep digitization
Part 3 Digital Touches
7 BeautifulAgony.com and the eroticism of the database
8 Bridegrooms of pixels, concrete and steel: the wedding ceremony as an act of subject founding
9 Playable apparatus of cruelty: The Sims as a posthuman camp
Final word (towards a theory of apparatus of posthuman intimacy)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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