New Philosophy for New Media

Name: New Philosophy for New Media
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ISBN: 9780262582667

ISBN-10: 026258266X

ISBN-13: 9780262582667

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark B. N. Hansen, Lenoir

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In New Philosophy for New Media, Mark Hansen defines the image in digital art in terms that go beyond the merely visual. Arguing that the "digital image" encompasses the entire process by which information is made perceivable, he places the body in a privileged position -- as the agent that filters information in order to create images. By doing so, he counters prevailing notions of technological transcendence and argues for the indispensability of the human in the digital era. Hansen examines new media art and theory in light of Henri Bergson's argument that affection and memory render perception impure -- that we select only those images precisely relevant to our singular form of…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 361
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction



From Image to Body



Between Body and Image: On the "Newness" of New Media Art



Framing the Digital Image: Jeffrey Shaw and the Embodied Aesthetics of New Media



The Automation of Sight and the Bodily Basis of Vision



The Affect-Body



Affect as Interface: Confronting the "Digital Facial Image"



What's Virtual about VR? "Reality" as Body-Brain Achievement



The Affective Topology of New Media Art



Time, Space, and Body



Body Times


Conclusion


Notes


Index