{"product_id":"digital-logic-of-death","title":"Digital Logic of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the open access book, \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Logic of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Pustay skillfully makes visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that moving images play in shaping our understanding of mortality. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis relationship, he argues, is made all the more urgent by the technologies of the digital age, which have profoundly altered our ability to represent and contemplate death through moving images, resulting in an entirely new cultural logic of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo draw out this new logic, Pustay presents accessible readings of otherwise dense and difficult philosophical approaches to death – such as those found in existentialism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory – by reading them through the lens of contemporary media. From art-house films like \u003ci\u003eIrréversible\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fountain\u003c\/i\u003e to blockbusters like the Matrix trilogy, from television commercials for M\u0026amp;M’s to pay-cable dramas like \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreaking Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, from first-person shooters like \u003ci\u003eBioshock \u003c\/i\u003eto indie-games like \u003ci\u003eLIMBO\u003c\/i\u003e, Pustay shows how moving images have shifted our understanding of death in general and our recognition of our own finiteness in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewww.bloomsburycollections.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217943286104,"sku":"9781501364082","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501364082_670aa84a-fdae-463f-a66f-f5a43cc99c07.jpg?v=1770264043","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/digital-logic-of-death","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}