Vertov, Snow, Farocki : machine vision and the posthuman /: machine vision and the posthuman. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Tomas.
• Authors: Tomas, David
• Contents: Introduction Part I: Threshold: When a Ritual Process Speaks of Machine Vision and Cyborg Prototypes: A Film Document, Circa 1929 Chapter 1. Manufacturing Vision and the Posthuman Circa 1929: Kino-eye, The Man with a Movie Camera, and the Perceptual Reconstruction of Social Identity Part II: Enigma of the Central Region: A Microhistory of Machine Vision and Posthuman Consciousness, Circa 1969-1972Chapter 2. La Région Centrale: Basic Cultural, Technical and Formal Filiations. Chapter 3. Toward a Cosmic Rite of Passage: External & Internal Locations and a Play of Authorship Chapter 4. La Région Centrale: Liminality, Knowledge Production, Pedagogy. Chapter 5. La Région Centrale: From Cosmic to Posthuman Rite of Passage Chapter 6. De La (1969-71): Authorship, Automation and the Posthuman. Chapter 7. A Comparative Schematic Analysis of the Automated Narrative and its Mechanical Logic in Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Michael Snow's De La (1969-1972). Part III The Public Deployment of Machine Vision and the Programmed Materialization of the Posthuman in Collective Social Space, Two Early Twenty-First Century Video Documents Chapter 8. A Posthuman Future in the Age of the Algorithm: Farock's Documentation of the Operational Image and its Culture of Surveillance BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4372; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441172273; 1441172270
• Related ISBNs: 9781501307294
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