[Commlist] New Book and Early Launch - The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections

New book:

The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light 
Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam University Press, 
November 2021).

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463723541/the-post-screen-through-virtual-reality-holograms-and-light-projections 


Screens today set up diminishing boundaries between image and object. 
For example, the aim of Virtual Reality (VR) is to render its screen 
boundaries as imperceptible as possible, or to "disappear" altogether. 
Contemporary screen media erode, if not erase, viewers' perceptual 
differentiations between their actual reality and the virtual reality of 
the image they experience. This, then, is the post-screen. What it 
engenders is really the sense of "no more media": we may now think of 
everything as cinema, or as image, or as virtuality. The terms of 
reality and illusion have lost their old semantic values. In the 
post-screen, they are no longer related in the ways they used to be 
across the screen's boundaries. Instead, we grapple with another regime 
of truth values.

"Jenna Ng's book is an exciting read. The goals are ambitious: to 
uncover the emerging culture of 'post-screens' that bleed into our lives 
and environments; to understand their position within the tradition of 
screen media from early modernity onwards; and to reflect on how they 
shape our experience and understanding today." - Pasi Valiaho, 
University of Oslo

"Jenna Ng presents us with a convincing argument: while traditional 
frames of the pictorial are vanishing, the screen becomes internalised 
onto the body of the spectator. The book looks at the future of 
post-screen media with the best approach I can think of: a strong sense 
of history and an insightful philosophical toolkit." - Jussi Parikka, 
FAMU (Prague) and University of Southampton (UK)

The author is Senior Lecturer in Film and Interactive Media at the 
University of York, UK. She is also the editor of /Understanding 
Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds /(Bloomsbury, 2013).


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