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The author examines attributes and critical elements from Adorno's view on film, particularly Fritz Lang's Fury. The article analyzes film as an art form and Fury as a fully dialectical fable on the nature of American populism or in Adorno's viewpoint a prism of paradox, resistance, and autonomy. The author underlines ideological, psychological and sociological patterns throughout the article, while providing the air of burden regarding motion pictures to achieve a measure of aestheticism as dreamless dreams. The author presents Fury as the characters mimic life in the 1930s; following the Nazis treatment of the Jews in Germany and the mass lynching spawned by Brooke Harts murder in San Jose. The article provides a study of subject realism and various aesthetic mechanisms and methods regarding the film, its images, composition, characters, and music; as each of these affect the audience, Lang and Adorno. Adapted from the source document.

"This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations, aesthetics, and politics in the context of new technologies, and social and urban challenges toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Responding to questions stemming from critical theory, the book focuses on an interdisciplinary actualization of technological developments and social challenges. It demonstrates how art, architecture, and design can transform culture, society, and nature through artistic and cultural achievements, integration, and new developments. The book begins with the theoretical framework of social aesthetics theories before discussing global contemporary visual culture and technological evolution. Across the twelve chapters, it looks at how architecture and design play significant roles in causing and solving complex environmental transformations in the digital turn. By fostering transdisciplinary encounters between architecture, design, visual arts, and cinematography, this book presents different theoretical approaches to how the arts' interplay with the environment responds to the logic of the constructions of reality. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students in aesthetics, philosophy, visual cultural studies, communication studies, and media studies with a particular interest in socio-political and environmental discussions"--

"Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the 'War on Terror', this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner. Anti-war theatre after Brecht grapples with the problem of how to make theatre that protests the policies of democratically elected Western governments in a post-Marxist era. It shows how the Internet has become a key tool for disseminating anti-war play texts and how online social media forums are changing traditional dramatic aesthetics and broadening opportunities for spectator access, engagement and interaction with a work and the political alternatives it puts forward"--Back cover

The work of Michelangelo Antonioni is considered as trailblazing and as a paradigmatic expression of modernism in cinema. Even today it has an impact on film style and holds a key place in the history of film art. In my contribution I discuss and enlarge upon these interpretations of his work in the context of the political character of his aesthetics. The political in his films, my thesis suggests, is found in the aesthetic experience which becomes possible by means of his films. Antonioni has created a dissensual cinema in which can be found the aesthetic truth of cinema, the ambiguity of dumb and ephemeral things, the texture of the world as it is. His cinema makes real the transition from the representative fiction of the plot to the aesthetic fiction of the signs. Wong Kar-wai has followed him in this. Both design sensual landscapes of the surface of the world which have broken the straight line between cause and effect and are defined by aesthetic affect. Adapted from the source document.

This book proposes, following Antonin Artaud, an investigation exploring the virtual body, neurology and the brain as fields of contestation, seeking a clearer understanding of Artaud's transformations that ultimately leads into examining the relevance Artaud may have for an adequate theory of the current media environment.New Media and the Artaud Effect is the only current full-length study of the relation of Artaud's work to dilemmas of digital art, media and society today. It is also singular in that it combines a far-reaching discussion of the theoretical implications and ramifications of the 'late' or 'final' Artaud, with a treatment of individual media works, sometimes directly inspired from Artaud's travails.Artaud has long been justly regarded as one of the seminal influences in mid- and late-20th century performance and theater: it is argued here that Artaud's insights are if anything more applicable to digital/post-digital society and the plethora of works that are made possible by it

The topography of locative media -- Section introduction -- Location services ecosystems -- The business of maps -- Location integration and data markets -- Cultures of use -- Section introduction -- Locative media arts and political aesthetics -- App entanglements -- Territories of the city and the self : locative mobile social networking, urban exploration and identity performance -- Geodata capture and privacy -- Section introduction -- Location data extraction and retention -- Mobile social networking and locational privacy.

Aesthetics / Birgit Meyer and Jojada Verrips -- Audiences / Stewart M. Hoover -- Circulation / Johanna Sumiala -- Community / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Culture / Angela Zito -- Economy / David Chidester -- Image / David Morgan -- Media / Peter Horsfield -- Narrative / Jolyon Mitchell -- Practice / Pamela E. Klassen -- Public / Joyce Smith -- Religion / Sarah M. Pike -- Soundscape / Dorothea E. Schulz -- Technology / Jeremy Stolow -- Text / Isabel Hofmeyr

Introduction: reading the air -- Background music of the avant-garde: the quiet boom of Erik Satie -- The sound of embodied security: imaginary landscapes of ambient music -- Moving with the rhythms of the city: ambient video attunements -- Soft fascinations in shallow depth: compositing ambient space -- Subtractivism: low-affect living with ambient cinema -- Healing style: ambient literature and the aesthetics of calm -- Conclusion

Der in diesem Band aufgearbeitete Diskurs über das Fotografische versucht, den Moment des Fotografierens und den der Bildbetrachtung als Schriftlichkeit, Verräumlichung und Inszenierung auszulegen.Unter dem Begriff »Bildschriftlichkeit« wird die Präsenz- und Zeitproblematik des Aufschreibesystems Fotografie mit zahlreichen Zitaten von Derrida, Benjamin, Barthes, Sontag, Flusser, Virilio, Baudrillard, Krauss, aber auch Luhmann, Heidegger und anderen belegt und kommentiert. In einem Essay des Autors werden diese Äußerungen über das Fotografische zu einem gangbaren Weg verbunden

Discusses tensions between the logics of politics & contemporary media, arguing that media pressure results in a politics that is increasingly staged. In contrast to politics, which is complex & involves interplay between numerous actors of varying size, the media favor selective amplification & simplification. Politics is pressured to synthesize its own & media logic by adopting theatrical logic. Nine models used in this process are elaborated: personification, mythical heroic conflict, drama, archetypal narrative, sociointegrative communication ritual, debate, circus, social-role drama, & symbolic action. When successful, the integration of politics & media aesthetics promotes incompetence, powerlessness, & irresponsibility in politics & damages professionalism & ethics & creates a negative economy in the media. 2 References. Adapted from the source document.