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Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

By: Matthew Flisfeder

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Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

By: Matthew Flisfeder

Provides an introductory explanation of postmodernism and its connection to film theory, and how it can be used to interpret Ridley Scott’s film, Blade Runner.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501311808

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Algorithmic Desire

Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media

By: Matthew Flisfeder

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Algorithmic Desire

Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media

By: Matthew Flisfeder

In Algorithmic Desire, Matthew Flisfeder shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The preeminent medium of our time, social media’s digital platform and algorithmic logic shape our experience of democracy, enjoyment, and desire. Weaving between critical theory and analyses of popular culture, Flisfeder uses examples from The King’s Speech, Black Mirror, Gone Girl, The Circle, and Arrival to argue that social media highlights the antisocial dimensions of twenty‐first-century capitalism. He counters leading critical theories of social media—such as new materialism and accelerationism—and thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, proposing instead a new structuralist account of the ideology and metaphor of social media. Emphasizing the structural role of crises, gaps, and negativity as central to our experiences of reality, Flisfeder interprets the social media metaphor through a combination of dialectical, Marxist, and Lacanian frameworks to show that algorithms may indeed read our desire, but capitalism, not social media, truly makes us antisocial. Wholly original in its interdisciplinary approach to social media and ideology, Flisfeder’s conception of “algorithmic desire” is timely, intriguing, and sure to inspire debate.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810143356

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9780810143357

What Is Post-Modern Conservatism

Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times

By: Matthew McManus

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What Is Post-Modern Conservatism

Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times

By: Matthew McManus

What is post-modern conservatism? How it has come to dominate the political landscape in many developed countries? Edited by Matt McManus, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, What Is Post-Modern Conservatism touches on how technological, economic, and social transformations of the post-modern epoch have brought about a political landscape where the irrational and traditionalist aspects of conservative thought have mutated into the hugely tremendous forms we see today. With contributory essays from Dylan De Jong, Erik Tate, Borna Radnik, David Hollands and Conrad Hamilton.

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256

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789042461

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9781789042467

Zizek and Politics

A Critical Introduction

By: Matthew Sharpe

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Zizek and Politics

A Critical Introduction

By: Matthew Sharpe

In Zizek and Politics, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe go beyond standard introductions to spell out a new approach to reading Zizek, one that can be highly critical as well as deeply appreciative. They show that Zizek has a raft of fundamental positions that enable his theoretical positions to be put to work on practical problems. Explaining these positions with clear examples, they outline why Zizek's confrontation with thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze has so radically changed how we think about society. They then go on to track Zizek's own intellectual development during the last twenty years, as he has grappled with theoretical problems and the political climate of the War on Terror. This book is a major addition to the literature on Zizek and a crucial critical introduction to his thought.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748642226

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9780748642229

The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film

By: M. Flisfeder

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The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film

By: M. Flisfeder

Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Žižek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.

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Springer

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1137110740

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Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

By: Matthew Flisfeder

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Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

By: Matthew Flisfeder

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century capitalism, Flisfeder provides a valuable guide for both students and scholars interested in learning more about one of the most significant, influential, and controversial concepts in film and cultural studies of the past 40 years. The "Film Theory in Practice" series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner offers a concise introduction to Postmodernism in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501311778

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Book's by Matthew Flisfeder

Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

Algorithmic Desire

Algorithmic Desire

What Is Post-Modern Conservatism

What Is Post-Modern Conservatism

Zizek and Politics

Zizek and Politics

The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film

The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film

Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

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