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Biopolitical screens : image, power, and the neoliberal brain /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Väliaho, Pasi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:Leonardo
Subjects:
Visual sociology.
Imagery (Psychology)
Art and society.
Art and technology.
Biopolitics.
Economics.
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
ARTS/Photography & Film/General
ECONOMICS/Political Economy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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."--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9780262324533
0262324539
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9587.001.0001