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Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image book cover

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Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media The Prosaic Image

By Helen Grace Copyright 2014
248 Pages 165 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 165 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 165 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book argues that ubiquitous media and user-created content establish a new perception of the world that can be called ‘particulate vision’, involving a different relation to reality that better represents the atomization of contemporary experience especially apparent in social media. Drawing on extensive original research including detailed ethnographic investigation of camera phone... Read more

Introduction: The dynamic sequencing of cultural genomes?  1. Spectral Monumentality and the Face of Time: Virtuality, distortions of scale and asynchrony in postcolonial Hong Kong  2. The Surrogate Image and Blog Life:
Mobility in the everyday blogosphere  3. Sounding the Image: Between Visuality and Orality  4. Particulate Vision and the Evasion of Capture 5. iPhone Girl: Assembly, assemblages and affect in the life of an image

Biography

Helen Grace is Visiting Professor, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, an Associate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and Research Affiliate, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and an award winning filmmaker and new media producer.

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