Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image

ISBN-13: 9780415830638 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str.

Helen Grace

Opis

This book argues that ubiquitous media and user-created content establish a new perception of the world that can be called particulate vision, involving a different relation to reality that better represents the atomization of contemporary experience especially apparent in social media. Drawing on extensive original research including detailed ethnographic investigation of camera phone practices in Hong Kong, as well as visual analysis identifying the patterns, regularities and genres of such work, it shows how new distributed forms of creativity and subjectivity now work to shift our perceptions of the everyday. The book analyses the specific features of these new developments the components of what can be called a general aesthesia and it focuses on the originality and innovation of amateur practices, developing a model for making sense of the huge proliferation of images in contemporary culture, discovering rhythms and tempo in this work and showing why it matters.

Spis treści

Introduction: The dynamic sequencing of cultural genomes?  1. Spectral Monumentality and the Face of Time: Virtuality, distortions of scale and asynchrony in postcolonial Hong Kong  2. The Surrogate Image and Blog Life:
Mobility in the everyday blogosphere  3. Sounding the Image: Between Visuality and Orality  4. Particulate Vision and the Evasion of Capture 5. iPhone Girl: Assembly, assemblages and affect in the life of an image

O autorze

Helen Grace is Visiting Professor, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, an Associate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and Research Affiliate, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and an award winning filmmaker and new media producer.