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Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium

Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium

Buckley, Craig
Campe, Rüdiger
Casetti, Francesco

Paperback

Series: MediaMatters

General ComputersGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9463729003
ISBN13: 9789463729000
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 11 2019
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, Screen Genealogies argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into a distributed field of technologically interconnected surfaces and interfaces, we more readily recognize the deeper spatial and environmental interventions that have long been a property of screens. For most of its history, a screen was a filter, a divide, a shelter, or a camouflage. A genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes a deeper set of intersecting and competing definitions of the screen, enabling new thinking about what the screen might yet become.

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