Dear MeCCSA colleagues
Announcing a new publication in the Recursions-book series (Amsterdam University Press):
Ute Holl’s Cinema Trance and Cybernetics is available now as hardback for library etc. purchase. It will be also made available as Open Access in the near future!
We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema, one that allows us to see the links among cinema, anthropology, psychology, and cybernetics.
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089646682-cinema-trance-and-cybernetics.html
The book also includes Pasi Väliaho’s Foreword to the English edition which you can read here (opens as PDF):
http://en.aup.nl/download/Cinema%20Trance%20and%20Cybernetics%20Look%20Inside.pdf
For a list of all the books in the Recursions-series, please go to:
http://en.aup.nl/series/recursions
In the coming months forthcoming is Liam Young’s study about cultural techniques of lists:
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462981102-list-cultures.html
Best wishes
Jussi
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Dr Jussi Parikka
Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics
Director of AMT – Archaeologies of Media and Technology research group
Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton
Docent in Digital Culture Theory (University of Turku, Finland)
AMT: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/amt/
Machinology-blog: http://jussiparikka.net<http://jussiparikka.net/>
Mailing address:
Professor Jussi Parikka
Winchester School of Art
Park Avenue
Winchester
Hampshire
SO 23 8DL
United Kingdom
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