Technology and Desire : The Transgressive Art of Moving Images.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Post-medial Technologies of Desire: Performances of Images -- Prelude: Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or the Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries -- PART I: Post-Medial Image Cultures and New Media Philosophies -- Chapter 1: Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the 'Digital' in Digital Cinema is not the 'Digital' in Digital Technics -- Chapter 2: Arrest and Movement -- Chapter 3: The Aesthetics of Flow and the Aesthetics of Catharsis -- Chapter 4: Digital Images and Computer Simulations -- Chapter 5: Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, or the Unthought at the Heart of Wood -- PART II: Fugitive Images and Transmediality -- Chapter 6: Animated and Animating Landscapes: Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Colour Plates -- Chapter 7: Copernicus and I: Revolutions in Perception and The Powers of Ten -- Chapter 8: Cinema Mise en abyme: Contingencies of the Moving Image -- Chapter 9: Still Life in the Crosshairs, or For an Iconic Turn in Game Studies -- Chapter 10: Out of Image -- PART III: Post-Cinematic Desires: Genealogies of Anthropomorphic Transgressions -- Chapter 11: Choreographing the Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and the Politics of Aesthetics -- Chapter 12: Desire, Time and Transition in Anthropological Film-making -- Chapter 13: Longing in Film: Emotions in Images -- Chapter 14: The Fever Curve of the Gaze and the Body as (Image) Medium: Jacques Lacan's Media Theory of Unconscious Desire -- PART IV: Material Specters and the Lives of Images -- Chapter 15: The Sequence Image Between Motion and Stillness -- Chapter 16: Gaze and Withdrawal: On the 'Logic' of Iconic Structures -- Chapter 17: The Magical Image in Georges Méliès's Cinema.

Chapter 18: Liminal Spaces: Notes by Film-maker and Artist Malcolm Le Grice -- Chapter 19: Transgression: The Ethical Turn and the New Politics - Fatih Akin's Cinema and the Multicultural Dilemma -- Chapter 20: Radicant Spaces of Enunciation: Visual Art, 'Phenomenotechnique', and 'Criticality' - Towards a Postcolonial Media(l) Theory -- Biographies of Authors -- Back Cover.

The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in theory or practice) of images across the disciplines. Digital technologies have not only shaped post-cinematic media cultures and visual epistemologies, but they are behind a growing shift towards a new realism in theory, art, film and in the art of the moving image in particular. Technology and Desire examines the performative ontologies of moving images across the genealogies of media and their aesthetic agency in contemporary media and video art, CGI, painting, video games and installations. Drawing on cultural studies, media and film theory as well as art history to provide exemplary evidence of this shift, this book has as its central theme the question of whether images are predicated upon transgressing the boundaries of their framing - and whether in the course of their existence they develop a life of their own.

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