Jan Stasieńko, Media Technologies and Posthuman Intimacy, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/media-technologies-and-posthuman-intimacy-9781501380518/
Description
Constructinga theory of intimacy
describing processes occurring between a ‚human’ subject and information
creations, Jan Stasienko shows in what way and in what phases that relationship
is built and what its nature is.
He discusses technologies and genres related to the construction of a new
television message (teleprompter, interactive television forms appearing both
in the analogue and digital eras), composition of the film image and
specificity of cinematic technologies (peep show, hybrid animation, digital
visual effects). Also new-media technologies and genres will be discussed (for
example, aspects relating to computer games and Web portals making video
materials available). This diversity is prompted by the desire to show that the
building of intimacy protocols is not the domain of the digital era, and on the
other hand, that the posthumanism of media apparatus is a wide-ranging problem,
i.e. the area encompasses various vehicles findable throughout various
historical periods.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Cinematic Intimacies
1.“Kaleidoscope of Jouissance”: The Erotic Peepshow as a Game on Subjectivity.
2.Classic Animation and the Origins of Intersubjective Intimacy
3.Cinema-Cyborg and Human-Layer Digital Cinema Technologies as Vehicles of
Posthumanism
II. Tele-visions
4.Tele-prompter and Posthuman Repositioning of the Gaze
5.Posthumanism Through Interaction: Intimacies, Staring and Collective
Creations in “Winky Dink & You”
6.Phone-in Television Quizzes as Vehicles of Deep Digitization
III. Digital Encounters:
7.BeautifulAgony.com and the Eroticism of the Database
8.Bridegrooms of Pixels, Concrete and Steel: The Wedding Ceremony as an Act of
Subject Funding
9.“The Sims” and Defining Subject through Cruelty
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index