| Description |
1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-202) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the digital logic of death -- 1. The trauma of digital death -- 2. The digital path to death -- 3. The potential of digital death -- 4. The event of digital death -- Conclusion: the fractal logic of life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
In The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay skillfully makes visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that moving images play in shaping our understanding of mortality. This relationship, he argues, is made all the more urgent by the technologies of the digital age, which have profoundly altered our ability to represent and contemplate death through moving images, resulting in an entirely new cultural logic of death. To draw out this new logic, Pustay presents accessible readings of otherwise dense and difficult philosophical approaches to death - such as those found in existentialism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory - by reading them through the lens of contemporary media. From art-house films like Irréversible and The Fountain to blockbusters like the Matrix trilogy, from television commercials for M&M's to pay-cable dramas like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, from first-person shooters like Bioshock to indie-games like LIMBO, Pustay shows how moving images have shifted our understanding of death in general and our recognition of our own finiteness in particular. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Death in popular culture.
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Digital media.
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Death in mass media.
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Death in mass media. (OCoLC)fst00888700
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Death in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst00888704
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Digital media. (OCoLC)fst00893716
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pustay, Steven. Digital logic of death. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 1501364081 (OCoLC)1159546803 |
| ISBN |
9781501364075 (electronic book) |
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1501364073 (electronic book) |
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9781501364068 (electronic book) |
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1501364065 (electronic book) |
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1501364081 |
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9781501364082 |
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