[ecrea] A new book in the Recursions-series: Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics

Announcing a new publication in the Recursions-book series (Amsterdam 
University Press):

Ute Holl’s Cinema Trance and Cybernetics is available now as hardback 
for library etc. purchase. It will be also made available as Open Access 
in the near future!

We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've 
been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining 
cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously 
transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and 
experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological 
laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, 
measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of 
cinema, one that allows us to see the links among cinema, anthropology, 
psychology, and cybernetics.

http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089646682-cinema-trance-and-cybernetics.html

The book also includes Pasi Väliaho’s Foreword to the English edition 
which you can read here (opens as PDF):
http://en.aup.nl/download/Cinema%20Trance%20and%20Cybernetics%20Look%20Inside.pdf

For a list of all the books in the Recursions-series, please go to:
http://en.aup.nl/series/recursions

In the coming months forthcoming is Liam Young’s study about cultural 
techniques of lists:
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462981102-list-cultures.html


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