Transforming Images : Screens, affect, futures

ISBN-13: 9780415678841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 184 str.

Rebecca Coleman

Opis

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. This title examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Transformation, Potential, Futures  1. Screening Affect: Images, Representational Thinking and the Actualization of the Virtual  2. Bringing the Image to Life: Interactive Mirrors and Intensive Experience  3. Becoming Different: Makeover Television, Proximity and Immediacy  4. Immanent Measure: Interaction, Attractors and the Multiple Temporalities of Online Dieting  5. Pre-Empting the Future: Obesity, Prediction and Change4Life.  Conclusion: Transforming Images: Sociology, the Future and the Virtual.  Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Rebecca Coleman is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Her research is concerned with theoretical and empirical explorations of the relations between bodies and images, with a particular focus on temporality. Publications include The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience (2009, Manchester University Press).