The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections : Where Screen Boundaries Lie.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Post-Screen Media: Meshing the Chain Mail -- Eroding Boundaries in the Contemporary Mediascape -- Why Boundaries Matter -- Chapter Outlines -- The Post-what? -- 1. Screen Boundaries as Movement -- Re-placing the Screen: Play and Display, Appearance and ­Dis-­appearance -- Screen Boundaries: Physical and Virtual, and of the Movement Betwixt -- Metaphors for the Screen -- Crossing Screen Boundaries: Love, Pleasure, Information, Transformation -- Interactivity and the Moveable Window -- Screen Boundaries Across Dimensions -- 2. Leaking at the Edges -- Protections and Partitions -- Rupturing Screen Boundaries -- Interplay between Fictional and Factual Threat -- Leaking at the Edges: The Merging of the Amalgamated Real -- Virtual Co-location in Real-time… and in the Era of Covid-19 -- The Screen Boundary Against the Algorithm -- Screen Boundaries in Flux -- 3. Virtual Reality: Confinement and Engulfment -- Replacement and ­Re-placement -- "Multitudes of Amys" -- On Immersion (Briefly) -- The Affective Surround: The Two Vectors of Immersion -- The Post-Screen Through VR (1): Confinement and Engulfment -- The Post-Screen Through VR (2): Replacement and Re-placement -- The Danger Paradox -- VR as Immersion: Travel, Escape, Fulfilment -- VR as Inversion: Witness, Empathy, Subjectivity -- Defeated by the Ghosts -- 4. Holograms/Holographic Projections : Ghosts Amongst the Living -- Ghosts of the Living -- How We See Ghosts, or, In Love with the Post-Screen -- Ghosts in the Media: Re-inventing the Afterlife -- The Post-Screen Through Holograms/Holographic Projections -- Holographic Projections (1): Ghosts Amongst the Living - Limbo Between Deadness and Aliveness -- Holographic Projections (2): Ghosts of the Living - Vivification of the Virtual Real.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Substitution -- 4A. (Remix) True Holograms: A Different Kind of Screen -- A Different Kind of Ghost -- Screens and Ghosts, or, the Window and the Guy in the Basement -- True Holograms -- A Different Kind of Screen: Brains, Nerves, Thought -- A Different Kind of Ghost: "A Memory, A Daydream, A Secret," or, Digital Apparitions -- 5. Light Projections: On the Matter of Light and the Lightness of Matter -- The City Rises -- The Light Rises, or, Light as the Matter of Light -- Cities of Screens -- Light Projections (1): Light that Dissolves and Constructs… and of Latency -- Light Projections (2): Walls that Fall Apart… and Re-Form -- Light Projections (3): Particles that Gain a Body… and Transform -- Projection Mapping (1): The Image that Devours Structure -- the Voracity that is a Media History -- Projection Mapping (2): The Exterior that Reveals -- the Permanence that Fades -- The Ground Beneath Our Feet -- Conclusion/Coda -- Postscripts to the Post-Screen: The Holiday and the Global Pandemic -- Twin Obsessions (1): Difference -- Twin Obsessions (2): The Gluttony -- The Post-Screen in the Time of Covid-19 -- Index -- Backcover.

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