The animatic apparatus
Subtitle: animation, vitality, and the futures of the image
By: Deborah Levitt
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781780992693
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Computer animation; Biopolitics; Computer simulation; Cloning
Description: "Unprecedented kinds of experience, and new modes of life, are now produced by simulations, from the CGI of Hollywood blockbusters to animal cloning to increasingly sophisticated military training software, while animation has become an increasingly powerful pop-cultural form. Today, the extraordinary new practices and radical objects of simulation and animation are transforming our neoliberal-biopolitical “culture of life”. The Animatic Apparatus offers a genealogy for the animatic regime and imagines its alternative futures, countering the conservative-neoliberal notion of life’s sacred inviolability with a new concept and ethics of animatic life"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: The cinematic regime: biopolitics, spectral life, and the crisis of ontology; title: The animatic apparatus: desiring images; title: Phantasmatic simulacra and anti-Pinocchios; title: The doll theme: object lessons in an-ontology; title: An-ontology and animatic aesthetics; title: Animal aesthetics, part 2: affects, anagrams, simulacra; title: Animatic pop: body-as-image, image-as-body.