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Biopolitical screens : image, power, and the neoliberal brain

Title
  1. Biopolitical screens : image, power, and the neoliberal brain / Pasi Väliaho.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Author
  1. Väliaho, Pasi

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Description
  1. xvi, 186 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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 entertainment. Drawing on current neuroscience and political and economic thought, Väliaho argues that these images work to shape the atomistic individuals who populate the neoliberal world of accumulation and war. Väliaho bases his argument on a broad notion of the image as something both visible and sayable, detectable in various screen platforms but also in scientific perception and theoretical ideas. After laying out the conceptual foundations of the book, Väliaho offers focused and detailed investigations of the current visual economy. He considers the imagery of first-person shooter video games as tools of neuropower; explores the design and construction of virtual reality technologies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan; and examines three instances of video installation art that have the power to disrupt the dominant regime of sensibility rather than reinforce it."--Publisher's description.
Series statement
  1. Leonardo
Uniform title
  1. Leonardo book series.
Subject
  1. Visual sociology
  2. Imagery (Psychology)
  3. Art and society
  4. Art and technology
  5. Biopolitics
  6. Economics
  7. Neue Medien
  8. Visuelle Medien
  9. Universalität
  10. Visuelle Wahrnehmung
  11. Bewusstseinsveränderung
  12. Sozialer Wandel
Contents
  1. Biopolitical visual economy: image, apparatus, and the cerebral subject -- Future perfect: first-person shooters, neuropower, preemption -- Contingent pasts: affectivity, memory, and the virtual reality of war -- Emergent present: imagination, montage, critique.
Call number
  1. JFE 16-13357
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-179) and index.
Author
  1. Väliaho, Pasi, author.
Title
  1. Biopolitical screens : image, power, and the neoliberal brain / Pasi Väliaho.
Publisher
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Leonardo
  2. Leonardo book series.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-179) and index.
Local note
  1. AUTH: GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. EXAMINES ROLE OF MEDIA IN PERCEPTIONS.
LCCN
  1. 2013044423
Other standard identifier
  1. 40023929697
ISBN
  1. 9780262027472 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  2. 026202747X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 16-13357
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