Technology and Desire
The Transgressive Art of Moving Images
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
350 pages
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110 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2014
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Post-medial Technologies of Desire: Performances of Images
Rania Gaafar and Martin Schulz
Prelude
Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or the Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries
Anselm Franke
Part I: Post-Medial Image Cultures and New Media Philosophies
1 Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the ‘Digital’ in Digital Cinema is not the ‘Digital’ in Digital Technics
Mark B. N. Hansen
2 Arrest and Movement
Timothy Druckrey
3 The Aesthetics of Flow and the Aesthetics of Catharsis
Jay David Bolter
4 Digital Images and Computer Simulations
Barbara Flueckiger
5 Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, or the Unthought at the Heart of Wood
Laura U. Marks
Part II: Fugitive Images and Transmediality
6 Animated and Animating Landscapes: Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Martin Schulz
7 Copernicus and I: Revolutions in Perception and The Powers of Ten
Janet Harbord
8 Cinema Mise en abyme: Contingencies of the Moving Image
Ursula Frohne
9 Still Life in the Crosshairs, or For an Iconic Turn in Game Studies
Thomas Hensel
10 Out of Image
Yvonne Spielmann
Part III: Post-Cinematic Desires: Geneaologies of Anthropomorphic Transgressions
11 Choreographing the Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and the Politics of Aesthetics
Isaac Julien
12 Desire, Time and Transition in Anthropological Film-making
Ute Holl
13 Longing in Film: Emotions in Images
Hinderk M. Emrich
14 The Fever Curve of the Gaze and the Body as (Image) Medium: Jacques Lacan’s Media Theory of Unconscious Desire
Annette Bitsch
Part IV: Material Specters and the Lives of Images
15 The Sequence Image between Motion and Stillness
Jens Schröter
16 Gaze and Withdrawal: On the ‘Logic’ of Iconic Structures
Dieter Mersch
17 The Magical Image in Georges Méliès’s Cinema
Lorenz Engell
18 Liminal Spaces: Notes by Film-maker and Artist Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm LeGrice
19 Transgression: The Ethical Turn and the New Politics – Fatih Akin’s Cinema and the Multicultural Dilemma
Thomas Elsaesser
20 Radicant Spaces of Enunciation: Visual Art, ‘Phenomenotechnique,’ and ‘Criticality’ – Towards a Postcolonial Media(l) Theory
Rania Gaafar
Biographies of Authors
Introduction
Post-medial Technologies of Desire: Performances of Images
Rania Gaafar and Martin Schulz
Prelude
Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or the Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries
Anselm Franke
Part I: Post-Medial Image Cultures and New Media Philosophies
1 Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the ‘Digital’ in Digital Cinema is not the ‘Digital’ in Digital Technics
Mark B. N. Hansen
2 Arrest and Movement
Timothy Druckrey
3 The Aesthetics of Flow and the Aesthetics of Catharsis
Jay David Bolter
4 Digital Images and Computer Simulations
Barbara Flueckiger
5 Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, or the Unthought at the Heart of Wood
Laura U. Marks
Part II: Fugitive Images and Transmediality
6 Animated and Animating Landscapes: Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Martin Schulz
7 Copernicus and I: Revolutions in Perception and The Powers of Ten
Janet Harbord
8 Cinema Mise en abyme: Contingencies of the Moving Image
Ursula Frohne
9 Still Life in the Crosshairs, or For an Iconic Turn in Game Studies
Thomas Hensel
10 Out of Image
Yvonne Spielmann
Part III: Post-Cinematic Desires: Geneaologies of Anthropomorphic Transgressions
11 Choreographing the Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and the Politics of Aesthetics
Isaac Julien
12 Desire, Time and Transition in Anthropological Film-making
Ute Holl
13 Longing in Film: Emotions in Images
Hinderk M. Emrich
14 The Fever Curve of the Gaze and the Body as (Image) Medium: Jacques Lacan’s Media Theory of Unconscious Desire
Annette Bitsch
Part IV: Material Specters and the Lives of Images
15 The Sequence Image between Motion and Stillness
Jens Schröter
16 Gaze and Withdrawal: On the ‘Logic’ of Iconic Structures
Dieter Mersch
17 The Magical Image in Georges Méliès’s Cinema
Lorenz Engell
18 Liminal Spaces: Notes by Film-maker and Artist Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm LeGrice
19 Transgression: The Ethical Turn and the New Politics – Fatih Akin’s Cinema and the Multicultural Dilemma
Thomas Elsaesser
20 Radicant Spaces of Enunciation: Visual Art, ‘Phenomenotechnique,’ and ‘Criticality’ – Towards a Postcolonial Media(l) Theory
Rania Gaafar
Biographies of Authors
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