
The State of the Real
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The collection looks finally towards advanced technologies and the virtual world in a section which concludes with a specially commissioned contribution by acclaimed thinker Slavoj Zizek. This is an indispensable volume for students of 'the digital age' across the fields of art and photography, film, media studies and critical and visual theory.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The State of the Real Damian Sutton, Susan Brind, Ray McKenzie
- PART I REALISM REINVENTED
- Introduction
- 1 Photographic Practice, Postmodernism and the 'Irreal' Jane Tormey
- 2 Gursky, Ruff, Demand: allegories of the real and the return of history Neil Matheson
- 3 Between the Hyperrepresentational and the Real: a sampling sensibility Susanne Østby Sæther
- 4 Performing the Real Lennaart van Oldenborgh
- PART II REALISM IN PRACTICE
- Introduction
- 5 Art, Representation and Responsibility: towards a systems aesthetic James Coupe
- 6 Real Streams Kate Robinson
- 7 Centres Andrew Lee
- Plate section
- 8 The Shape of the Real: the work of the Einstein's Brain Project Alan Dunning and Paul Woodrow
- 9 BIOTEKNICA: organic tissue prototypes Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey
- PART III HOW REAL IS THE REAL?
- Introduction
- 10 Designing for Embodied Interaction: experiencing artefacts with and through the body Michael Smyth
- 11 Virtual Realities, Techno-aesthetics and Metafictions of Digital Culture Elizabeth K. Menon
- 12 Real Photography Damian Sutton
- 13 Virtual Cinematography and the Digital Real: (dis)placing the moving image between reality and simulacra Jenna Ng
- 14 Science of Appearances, Politics of the Real Slavoj Zizek
- Notes on the Text
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