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    Edited by François Penz, Richard Koeck ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the literature in the growing field of cartographic cinema and urban cinematics, by ... Read more

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  • The City and the Moving Image

    Urban Projections

    Edited by R. Koeck, L. Roberts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores the recent developments in research on film and urban landscapes, pointing towards new theoretical and methodological frameworks for discussion. ... Read more

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  • Digital Fever

    Taming the Big Business of Disinformation

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time – the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack.Translated for the first time into English, Digital Fever analyses the patterns of outrage and agitation that have come to define social media and the ... Read more

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  • From Being to Doing

    The Origins of the Biology of Cognition

    At the beginning of the last century, physicists revolutionised the scientific view of the world. Today biologists are radically transforming our understanding of the processes of life and cognition. Probing the mysteries of the mind, they have been able to prove that, in the act of knowing, the observer and the observed, subject and object, are inextricably enmeshed. The world we live in is not ... Read more

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  • The Art of Spatial Illusion

    Immersive Encounters between People, Media, and Place

    by Richard Koeck ...
    Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.g. VR) or location-based in physical realms (e.g. AR), increasingly powered by generative systems (e.g. AI). Are such spatially “immersive experiences” a new phenomenon and dependent on digital innovation?The Art of Spatial Illusion: ... Read more

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  • Cine-scapes

    Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities

    by Richard Koeck ...
    Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this book offers a new perspective....What happens if we begin to see the city as a place for an embodied visual consumption; a visual apparatus or, perhaps, a system that is based on ... Read more

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    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Read more

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