[Commlist] new book: Posthumanism, Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship. Amalgamated Cinema

Anna Batori is pleased to announce that the book '*Posthumanism, 
Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship. Amalgamated Cinema* 
<https://www.routledge.com/Posthumanism-Cognition-and-Cyborg-Spectatorship-Amalgamated-Cinema/Batori/p/book/9781032641423>'  
(Routledge), is now available.

The book argues that contemporary digital blockbusters function as 
laboratories of posthuman cognition, transforming spectatorship into a 
cyborg mode in which perception, memory, and agency are distributed 
across the cinematic canvas, the diegetic bodies of characters, the 
formal operations of film style, and the embodied cognition of the 
spectator.

Drawing on posthumanist theory and the framework of 4E cognition, it 
introduces four interlinked concepts—/embodied cognition/, /frozen 
module cognition/, /amalgamated aesthetics/, and the /cybokinetic 
frame/—to explain how film form trains attention, sensorimotor coupling, 
and cognitive adaptation.

Methodologically, the study combines close textual analysis with 
research on attention and perception, incorporating formal measures such 
as ASL, MSL, and VAI, while also advocating experimental follow-up 
through eye-tracking, pupillometry, and fMRI/EEG studies.

Through case studies including /Blonde, Nope, Inception, RoboCop, 
Pacific Rim/, and /Iron Man/, the book examines how aesthetic strategies 
sustain or fracture embodied engagement under conditions of sensory and 
informational excess.

Ultimately, it redefines the digital blockbuster as an active cognitive 
technology that both reflects and reconfigures twenty-first-century 
perception.

The book is intended for film and media scholars, cognitive scientists 
working in neurocinematics and enactive approaches, advanced students, 
and filmmakers interested in visual design.


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