The neuro-image : a Deleuzian film-philosophy of digital screen culture / Patricia Pisters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pisters, Patricia.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Philosophy.

Digital media.

Digital media--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Neurosciences and motion pictures.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the ""neuro-image."" Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains-Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research. These domains return in the book's tripartite structure. Part One, on the brain as ""neuroscreen,"" suggests rich connections between f

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Schizoanalysis, Digital Screens,and New Brain Circuits; Part 1. Neuroscreens: Principles of the Brain; 1. Schizoid Minds, Delirium Cinema, and Powers of the Machines of the Invisible; 2. Illusionary Perception and Powers of the False; 3. Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect; Part 2. Neurophilosophy: Turning Madness into Metaphysics; 4. Signs of Time: Metaphysics of the Brain-Screen; 5. Degrees of Belief: Epistemology of Probabilities; 6. Expressions of Creation: Aesthetics of Material-Forces; Part 3. Neuropolitics: Transnational Screen Connections

7. The Open Archive: Cinema as World-Memory8. Divine In(ter)vention: Micropolitics and Resistance; 9. Logistics of Perception 2.0: Multiple Screens as Affective Weapons; Conclusion. The Neuro-Image: Brain-Screens from the Future; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804782845

0804782849

OCLC:

793996632