Biopolitical screens : image, power, and the neoliberal brain / Pasi Väliaho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Väliaho, Pasi, author.

Series:

Leonardo Book Series

Leonardo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual sociology.

Imagery (Psychology).

Art and society.

Art and technology.

Biopolitics.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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 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."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Biopolitical Visual Economy: Image, Apparatus, and the Cerebral Subject; 2 Future Perfect: First-Person Shooters, Neuropower, Preemption; 3 Contingent Pasts: Affectivity, Memory, and the Virtual Reality of War; 4 Emergent Present: Imagination, Montage, Critique; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32454-7

0-262-32453-9

OCLC:

886637226