Biopolitical Screens
Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2023
Summary
In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. Väliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies—the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human potential by plugging it into arrangements of finance, war, and the consumption of entertainme…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548977 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262548976 |
| Author: | Pasi Valiaho |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Leonardo |
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Biopolitical Screens is an important contribution to the study of visual culture, and a thought-provoking ride for those who want to understand how our screen-based lifestyles are affecting our society and our very brains, and how can we resist the most pernicious effects of this process.–Hans Rollman, PopMatters–
Rooted in a view of images as animated and animistic life-forms (or viruses) in their own right, Valiaho has contributed one of the most trenchant and cohesive accounts available of our collective predicament. Biopolitical Screens has keyed in many of the most essential theoretical and historical vectors that still await their ‘incredible mutation.’
–Afterimage–Focusing on current issues and combining the most recent interdisciplinary tools to do so, this book is of the moment. It is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the intersection of images, politics, and media in 21st-century culture.
–Choice–About The Author
Pasi Valiaho
Pasi V. Iliaho is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Mapping the Moving Image: Gesture, Thought, and Cinema circa 1900.
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