Postnaturalism

Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface

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by Shane Denson

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

philosophy

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

transcript publishing

Collection

Film Studies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 432 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-3-8376-2817-3

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Book Presentation:
»Postnaturalism« offers an original account of human-technological co-evolution and argues that film and media theory, in particular, needs to be re-evaluated from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment. Extrapolating from Frankenstein films and the resonances they establish between a hybrid monster and the spectator hooked into the machinery of the cinema, Shane Denson engages debates in science studies and philosophy of technology to rethink histories of cinema, media, technology, and ultimately of the affective channels of our own embodiment.
With a foreword by media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen.

About the Author:
Shane Denson (PhD) is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research interests include film and media theory, seriality, and the philosophy of technology.

Press Reviews:
Shane Denson's Postnaturalism develops [an] ambitious, wide-ranging, and deeply compelling argument concerning the originary operation of media in a way that sketches out a much-needed alternative to destructive developments which, expanding the darker strains of poststructuralist anti-humanism, have pitted the human against the material in some kind of cosmological endgame. Postnaturalism will provide a very powerful and timely addition to the literature on posthuman, cosmological technogenesis. Perhaps more clearly than any other account, it reconciles the irreducibility of phenomenality and the imperative to move beyond anthropocentrism as we seek to fathom the postnatural techno-material revolutions that have repeatedly remade and that will no doubt continue to remake the environments from which we emerge and to which we belong before we become and as a condition of becoming human subjects. Mark B. N. Hansen

Denson's book […] is no light fare. For Postnaturalism you have to take your time, but it's definitely worth it. The work is especially to be recommended for those interested in the philosophy of technology, media theory, and anyone who wants to engage with a postnaturalistic metaphysics. Dominik Hammer, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover 24

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