The Neuro-Image
内容简介
This book approaches 21st-century globalized cinema through the new concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters begins with the premise that today's viewers no longer look through a character's eyes; instead, they move through his or her brain or mental landscape. Her book elaborates the threefold nature of the neuro-image by drawing on research from three domains?Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research?and is accordingly divided into three parts. The first reads
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作者简介
Patricia Pisters is Professor of Media Culture and Film Studies and Chair of the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, 2003), Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (ed. with Wim Staat, 2005) and Mind the Screen (ed. with Jaap Kooijman and Wanda Strauven, 2008).
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目录
Introduction. Schizoanalysis, Digital Screens, and New Brain Circuits 1
PART 1. neuroscreens: principles of the brain 35
1 Schizoid Minds, Delirium Cinema, and Powers of the Machines of the Invisible 37
2 Illusionary Perception and Powers of the False 73
3 Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect 98
PART 2. neurophilosophy: turning madness into metaphysics 125
4 Signs of Time: Metaphysics of the Brain-Screen 127
5 Degrees of Belief: Epistemology of Probabilities 156
6 Expressions of Creation: Aesthetics of Material-Forces 186
PART 3. neuropolitics: transnational screen connections 215
7 The Open Archive: Cinema as World-Memory 217
8 Divine In(ter)vention: Micropolitics and Resistance 243
9 Logistics of Perception 2.0: Multiple Screens as Affective Weapons 271
Conclusion. The Neuro-Image: Brain-Screens from the Future 299
Notes 307
Index 357
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