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Biopolitical Screens

Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
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In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V liaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V liaho 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, V liaho argues that these images work to shape the atomistic individuals who populate the neoliberal world of accumulation and war. V liaho bases his argument on a broad notion of the image as something both visible and sayable, detectable in various screen platforms but also in scientific perception and theoretical ideas. After laying out the conceptual foundations of the book, V liaho offers focused and detailed investigations of the current visual economy. He considers the imagery of first-person shooter video games as tools of "neuropower"; explores the design and construction of virtual reality technologies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan; and examines three instances of video installation art that have the power to disrupt the dominant regime of sensibility rather than reinforce it. An investigation of the aesthetics and politics of new visual media under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reality to video installation art. In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V liaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V liaho 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, V liaho argues that these images work to shape the atomistic individuals who populate the neoliberal world of accumulation and war. V liaho bases his argument on a broad notion of the image as something both visible and sayable, detectable in various screen platforms but also in scientific perception and theoretical ideas. After laying out the conceptual foundations of the book, V liaho offers focused and detailed investigations of the current visual economy. He considers the imagery of first-person shooter video games as tools of "neuropower"; explores the design and construction of virtual reality technologies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan; and examines three instances of video installation art that have the power to disrupt the dominant regime of sensibility rather than reinforce it.

Author Biography:

Pasi V liaho is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Mapping the Moving Image- Gesture, Thought, and Cinema circa 1900.
Release date Australia
August 15th, 2023
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
16 b&w illus.
Pages
208
Series
ISBN-13
9780262548977
Product ID
37906174

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