The Digital Logic of Death : Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media / / Steven Pustay |
Autore | Pustay Steven |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 306.9 |
Soggetto topico | Media studies |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Digital Logic of Death -- Knowing Death -- Showing Death -- 1 The Trauma of Digital Death -- In Effigie, In Absentia -- The Jouissance of Death (Witnessing) -- The Pornography of Death (Representing) -- The Sublimity of Death (Simulating) -- Time Destroys Everything -- 2 The Digital Path to Death -- Death in Digital Games -- Re-animation -- Compossibility -- Recurrence, Subjectivity, Contemplation -- The Path to Death -- After the Game is Before the Game -- 3 The Potential of Digital Death -- Possibilistic to the Limit.
Anxiety and Angst (Possibility and Authenticity) -- Being-toward-Death (Potentiality, Resoluteness, Immanence) -- Split Subjectivity (Potentiality, Reflection, Ecstasis) -- The Road to Awe -- 4 The Event of Digital Death -- The One or the Multiple -- Cyborgs, Androids, and Immortal Machines -- Being as Multiplicity (Axiomatic vs. Problematic) -- Death as Event (Consistency and Inconsistency) -- Everything That Has a Beginning Has an End -- Conclusion: The Fractal Logic of Life -- The Micro and the Macro -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774893803321 |
Pustay Steven | ||
New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Digital Logic of Death : : Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media / / Steven Pustay |
Autore | Pustay Steven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [s.l.] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Social Science / Death & Dying Social Science / Media Studies Social sciences |
ISBN |
1-5013-6407-3
1-5013-6406-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910629341403321 |
Pustay Steven | ||
[s.l.] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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