Biopolitical screens image, power, and the neoliberal brain

"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. Väliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Väliaho, Pasi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2014
Series:Leonardo
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Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. Väliaho 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, Väliaho argues that these images work to shape the atomistic individuals who populate the neoliberal world of accumulation and war."--Publisher's description
ISBN:0262324539
9780262324533