Flatline constructs : gothic materialism and cybernetic theory-fiction / Mark Fisher.
By: Fisher, Mark [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : Zer0 Books : 2025Copyright date: ©2024Description: 248 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781803417851 (paperback).Subject(s): Cybernetics in literature | Cyberpunk fiction | Postmodernism | CapitalismDDC classification: 809.38762 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 809.38762 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00238056 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher's PhD thesis, Flatline Constructs, invents a fusion of culture, critique, and radical philosophy that would define his signature style from Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism. Drawing on sources from David Cronenberg to Gilles Deleuze and William Gibson, Fisher presents a Gothic vision of cyberpunk reality, in which Man and media are drawn ever closer together, and life and death are never truly far apart.
Includes bibliographical references.
Forward -- Introduction -- Screams screens flatlines: cybernetics, postmodernism and the gothic -- Body image fading down corridors of television sky: the media landscape and the schizophrenic implosion of subjectivity -- Xeros and xenogenesis: mechanical reproduction and gothic propagation -- Black mirror: hypernaturalism, hyperreality, and hyperfiction.
"Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher’s PhD thesis, Flatline Constructs, invents a fusion of culture, critique, and radical philosophy that would define his signature style from Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism. Drawing on sources from David Cronenberg to Gilles Deleuze and William Gibson, Fisher presents a Gothic vision of cyberpunk reality, in which Man and media are drawn ever closer together, and life and death are never truly far apart" - publisher's description.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (1)
- Introduction (13)
- 1 Screams, Screens, Flatlines: Cybernetics, Postmodernism, and the Gothic (25)
- How an Android Must Feel
- Cybernetics, Postmodernism, Fiction
- Flatlines
- Constructs
- Second Naturalism
- 2 Body Image Fading Down Corridors of Television Sky: The Media Landscape and the Schizophrenic Implosion of Subjectivity (77)
- The Body without Image
- The Body without Organs and Intensive Quantities
- Intensive Voyages and Cyberspace
- The Mediatised Body
- Jumping Out of Our Skin
- From Narcissism to Schizophrenia
- Stimulating the Gothic Body: Videodrome
- Tactile Power
- The Atrocity Exhibition
- Atroci-TV
- Catastrophe Management
- Beyond the Pleasures of the Organs
- 3 Xerox and Xenogenesis: Mechanical Reproduction and Gothic Propagation (139)
- Let Me Tell You About My Mother
- The Simulacrum's Revenge
- Samuel Butler and Surplus Value of Code
- Nuptials Against Nature: Sorcery and Propagation
- The Wasp Factory: Neuromancer
- Capitalism and Isophrenia: Ashpool
- Wintermutation: Neuromancer as Sorcerous Narrative
- 4 Black Mirror: Hypernaturalism, Hyperreality, and Hyperfiction (188)
- Never Mind Metaphor
- Borges Doesn't Make It into Cyberspace
- Hyperreality and Postmodernist Fiction
- Social Science/Social Science Fiction (How the True World Became a Simulation)
- The Decline of the Shadow (or, the End of the Marvellous)
- Mechanism and Animism (or, Gremlins in the Hyperreal)
- Capitalism as Toy Story: Hyperfiction, Strange Loops, and Rhizomes
- A Closing Parable: Hyperfiction and In the Mouth of Madness