Interface Fantasy

Author : Andre Nusselder
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262266499

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Interface Fantasy by Andre Nusselder Pdf

Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds. Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, André Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital technology. Lacanian psychoanalysis considers fantasy to be an indispensable “screen” for our interaction with the outside world; Nusselder argues that, at the mental level, computer screens and other human-computer interfaces incorporate this function of fantasy: they mediate the real and the virtual. Interface Fantasy illuminates our attachment to new media: why we love our devices; why we are fascinated by the images on their screens; and how it is possible that virtual images can provide physical pleasure. Nusselder puts such phenomena as avatars, role playing, cybersex, computer psychotherapy, and Internet addiction in the context of established psychoanalytic theory. The virtual identities we assume in virtual worlds, exemplified best by avatars consisting of both realistic and symbolic self-representations, illustrate the three orders that Lacan uses to analyze human reality: the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. Nusselder analyzes our most intimate involvement with information technology—the almost invisible, affective aspects of technology that have the greatest impact on our lives. Interface Fantasy lays the foundation for a new way of thinking that acknowledges the pivotal role of the screen in the current world of information. And it gives an intelligible overview of basic Lacanian principles (including fantasy, language, the virtual, the real, embodiment, and enjoyment) that shows their enormous relevance for understanding the current state of media technology.

Author : James Ash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623565572

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The Interface Envelope by James Ash Pdf

In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing upon examples from videogame design and work from post-phenomenology, speculative realism, new materialism and media theory, Ash argues that interfaces create envelopes, or localised foldings of space time, around which bodily and perceptual capacities are organised for the explicit production of economic profit. Modifying and developing Bernard Stiegler's account of psychopower and Warren Neidich's account of neuropower, Ash argues the aim of interface designers and publishers is the production of envelope power. Envelope power refers to the ways that interfaces in games are designed to increase users perceptual and habitual capacities to sense difference. Examining a range of examples from specific videogames, Ash identities a series of logics that are key to producing envelope power and shows how these logics have intensified over the last thirty years. In turn, Ash suggests that the logics of interface envelopes in videogames are spreading to other types of interface. In doing so life becomes enveloped as the environments people inhabit becoming increasingly loaded with digital interfaces. Rather than simply negative, Ash develops a series of responses to the potential problematics of interface envelopes and envelope power and emphasizes their pharmacological nature.

Author : Andrew K Nestingen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295988045

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Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia by Andrew K Nestingen Pdf

The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. Human agency and social status reside in names rather than in the individuals who hold these names, and the politics of succession associated with names and name-taking rituals have been, and continue to be, at the center of Tsimshian life.

Author : Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Maria João Pereira Neto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000734065

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Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy by Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Maria João Pereira Neto Pdf

The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND FANTASY were compiled with the intent to establish a multidisciplinary platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. The aim is also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, and their importance and benefits for the sense of both individual and community identity. The idea of modernity has been a significant motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.

Author : Paul M. Pedersen,Lucie Thibault
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : 9781718202993

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Contemporary Sport Management by Paul M. Pedersen,Lucie Thibault Pdf

"Short, factual description of the book (summary of what it includes, without subjective or promotional language.) This classic but thoroughly updated introductory text is designed so students will understand sport management as a field of study and a vibrant professional environment. It emphasizes critical-thinking, ethics, and diversity while providing a broad introduction to the major functional areas and issues that student will encounter in their careers"--

Author : Ksenia Fedorova
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262358989

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Tactics of Interfacing by Ksenia Fedorova Pdf

How digital technologies affect the way we conceive of the self and its relation to the world, considered through the lens of media art practices. In Tactics of Interfacing, Ksenia Fedorova explores how digital technologies affect the way we conceive of the self and its relation to the world. With the advent of ubiquitous computing, the self becomes an object of technological application, increasingly defined by data received from tracking technologies. Subtly, these technologies encourage versions of ourselves that are easier to interpret computationally. Fedorova views these shifts in self-perception through the lens of contemporary media art practices, examining a range of artistic tactics that enable embodied and intimate experiences of machinic operations on our lives.

Author : Joddy Murray
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781785273339

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Kinematic Rhetoric by Joddy Murray Pdf

Joddy Murray, in “Kinematic Rhetoric,” puts forward a theory of rhetoric that adds the elements of movement, sound, image, affect and duration to traditional accounts of digital, visual and multimodal rhetorics. His concept of “time-affect” images provides a complex and nuanced theory for composing that builds upon his earlier concept of “nondiscursive texts.” By turning to Deleuze’s work on cinema, Murray presents the “time-affect image,” which “generates" and amplifies affectivity through duration and motion, and is the key concept in this rhetorical theory. Motion, he argues, creates meaning that is independent of the content and, like all images, carries with it the potential for persuasion through the affective domain.

Author : Liedeke Plate,László Munteán,Airin Farahmand
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839466971

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Materials of Culture by Liedeke Plate,László Munteán,Airin Farahmand Pdf

While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.

Author : N.K. Jemisin,Peter S Beagle,Caroline M Yoachim,Brian Evenson,Dale Bailey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544980679

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by N.K. Jemisin,Peter S Beagle,Caroline M Yoachim,Brian Evenson,Dale Bailey Pdf

Stories by N.K. Jemisin, Dale Bailey, Peter S. Beagle, and more: “Showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre.” —TheWashington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories from major award winners, bestsellers, and rising stars, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever- changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view—literary, meta, and adventurous—to the series’ third edition. “Superb…This mostly dystopic, sometimes darkly humorous collection of 20 hard-hitting stories feels timely, confronting contemporary cultural crises.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : André Nusselder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136235320

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The Surface Effect by André Nusselder Pdf

Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the ‘mother of all media’? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real? In The Surface Effect André Nusselder examines the space of fantasy between individual ‘inner life’ and social ‘outer life’. Where we assume that fantasy only operates where we float off in imaginary realms, this book shows that we are in it from the beginning. Based on the work of Jacques Lacan, Nusselder elaborates Lacan’s theory, showing how the effects of unconscious processes converge in fantasy as our principal medium for self-identity, perception, remembering and intersubjectivity. The human mind is seen as a composite function of language, body and social world, and fantasy is the fundamental process to study this effect. The book is divided into three sections: - The Philosophical Context - Lacan’s Theory of Fantasy - Lacan and Philosophy The Surface Effect analyses fantasy as a medium, both creative and protective operating between anxiety and excess. It focuses on the role of fantasy in psychoanalysis, and follows its path towards reflections on mediation and new media. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, philosophers, cognitive scientists and those studying new media, film, culture and literature. André Nusselder is a Dutch philosopher, writer and computer programmer.

Author : Mike D'Errico
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190943301

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Push by Mike D'Errico Pdf

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps. Emerging alongside developments in digital music distribution such as peer-to-peer file sharing and the MP3 format, digital audio workstations like FL Studio and Ableton Live introduced design affordances that encouraged rapid music creation workflows through flashy, user-friendly interfaces. Meanwhile, software such as Avid's Pro Tools attempted to protect its status as the industry standard, professional DAW of choice by incorporating design elements from pre-digital music technologies. Other software, like Cycling 74's Max, asserted its alterity to commercial DAWs by presenting users with nothing but a blank screen. These are more than just aesthetic design choices. Push examines the social, cultural, and political values designed into music software, and how those values become embodied by musical communities through production and performance. It reveals ties between the maximalist design of FL Studio, skeuomorphic design in Pro Tools, and gender inequity in the music products industry. It connects the computational thinking required by Max, as well as iZotope's innovations in artificial intelligence, with the cultural politics of Silicon Valley's design thinking. Finally, it thinks through what happens when software becomes hardware, and users externalize their screens through the use of MIDI controllers, mobile media, and video game controllers. Amidst the perpetual upgrade culture of music technology, Push provides a model for understanding software as a microcosm for the increasing convergence of globalization, neoliberal capitalism, and techno-utopianism that has come to define our digital lives.

Author : Kevin Carrico
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520295490

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The Great Han by Kevin Carrico Pdf

The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing movement (Hanfu yundong), a neo-traditionalist and majority racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic “Great Han” and corresponding “real China” through pseudo-traditional ethnic dress, reinvented Confucian ritual, and anti-foreign sentiment. Employing close analysis of movement ideas and practices, this book finds that the movement’s “real China,” envisioning a pure, perfectly ordered, ethnically homogeneous, and secure society, is in fact an imaginary vision constructed in response to the challenging realities of the present. Yet this national imaginary is reproduced precisely through its own perpetual elusiveness. The Great Han is a pioneering analysis of Han identity, nationalism, and social movements in a rapidly changing China.

Author : Dennis Moser,Susan Dun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883055

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A Digital Janus: Looking Forward, Looking Back by Dennis Moser,Susan Dun Pdf

Cyberspace and cyberculture are becoming the norms of our reality; this volume explores questions of memory, law, politics, death and remembrance, travel, social change, and cross-cultural understandings of what it means to be human in this new digital age.

Author : André Cornelis Nusselder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9073838959

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Interface Fantasy by André Cornelis Nusselder Pdf

Author : Derek Lea
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1579907997

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Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Fantasy Techniques by Derek Lea Pdf

Photoshop Elements may be the little brother of Photoshop, but it's no slouch when it comes to digital image manipulation, as this book proves. Packed with fun and challenging projects that will appeal to all Photoshop Elements users, Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Fantasy Techniques is a masterclass in photographic wizardry-the only limit is your imagination! Book jacket.