Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Väliaho, Pasi

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xvi, 186 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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. Väliaho bases his argument on a broad notion of the image as something both visible and sayable, detectable in various screen platforms but also in scientific perception and theoretical ideas. After laying out the conceptual foundations of the book, Väliaho offers focused and detailed investigations of the current visual economy. He considers the imagery of first-person shooter video games as tools of neuropower; explores the design and construction of virtual reality technologies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan; and examines three instances of video installation art that have the power to disrupt the dominant regime of sensibility rather than reinforce it."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Leonardo

Uniform Title

Leonardo book series.

Subjects

• Art and technology
• Economics
• Sozialer Wandel
• Neue Medien
• Visual sociology
• Biopolitics
• Imagery (Psychology)
• Universalität
• Art and society
• Visuelle Wahrnehmung
• Bewusstseinsveränderung
• Visuelle Medien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-179) and index.

Contents

Biopolitical visual economy: image, apparatus, and the cerebral subject -- Future perfect: first-person shooters, neuropower, preemption -- Contingent pasts: affectivity, memory, and the virtual reality of war -- Emergent present: imagination, montage, critique.

Call Number

JFE 16-13357

ISBN

• 9780262027472
• 026202747X

LCCN

• 2013044423
• 40023929697

OCLC

863695456

Author

Väliaho, Pasi, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Leonardo

Leonardo book series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-179) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. EXAMINES ROLE OF MEDIA IN PERCEPTIONS.

Other Standard Identifier

40023929697

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13357