Postnaturalism : Frankenstein, film, and the anthropotechnical interface : (with a foreword by Mark B.N. Hansen)

»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. Frankenstein,Film,Media Theory,Philosophy of Technology,Embodiment,Analogue Media,Media Philosophy,Media Studies Contents Acknowledgements Foreword: Logics of Transition 1. Introduction: Monster Movies and Metaphysics Monster Movies: Adaptation, Myth, Genre, and Beyond Metaphysics: Film and the Anthropotechnical Interface Part One 2. Frankenstein’s Filmic Progenies: A Techno-Phenomenological Approach Film as Frankensteinian Technology? Techno-Phenomenology and the Structure of Cinematic Revolutions Frankenstein Films and the Noetic Arrow, Or: 3. Monsters in Transit: Edison’s Frankenstein An Interstitial Space Seeing Double: Material and Discursive Monsters in the Transition and Beyond Part Two 4. To the Heart of (the) Matter: Frankenstein, Embodiment, Materiality Frankenstein as a Tale of Two Monsters: Feminist Interventions and Beyond Parabolic Mutations: From Textual Allegory to Machinic Parable 5. Of Steam Engines, Revolutions, and the (Un)natural History of Matter: A Techno-Scientific Interlude Scientific Revolution: A Matter of Discourse or the Discourse of Matter? Postnaturalism and the Thermodynamic Revolution Coda: Fiction Meets Friction 6. Re-Focusing Cinematic Double Vision: Seriality, Mediality, and Mediation in Postnatural Perspective Prelude: Maurice and Henri at the Cosmic Picture Show Media in the Middle Segue: Seriality and the Mediation of Medial Change Part Three 7. Universal Monsters and Monstrous Particulars Incorporations: Melodrama and Monstrosity About-Face: Anthro-, Techno-, Xeno-Phenomenology 8. Lines of Flight: Transitional Thoughts by Way of Conclusion The Continuing Adventures of the Uncanny Body Works Cited Long description:>>Postnaturalism