Re-/Dissolving Mimesis

A woman is implicated in an assassination and captured on CCTV. Instead of looking for a truth behind the image - is she really guilty? - the writer and curator Shumon Basar dives deeper into the image itself. The kaleidoscopic result of this "paranoid, associative portrait" is the gateway...

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Main Author: Althoff, Sebastian
Other Authors: Linseisen, Elisa, Müller, Maja-Lisa, Winter, Franziska
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Series:Medien und Mimesis Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Sebastian Althoff, Elisa Linseisen, Maja-Lisa Müller and Franziska Winter
  • Sigle / Sebastian Althoff, Elisa Linseisen, Maja-Lisa Müller and Franziska Winter
  • Preface / Shumon Basar
  • Editorial: Re/Dissolving Mimesis / Sebastian Althoff, Elisa Linseisen, Maja-Lisa Müller and Franziska Winter
  • LOL History / Shumon Basar
  • Dying, Behind the Scenes: Picturing Impending Death / Felix Hasebrink
  • The Making of a Screen Image / Niklas Kammermeier
  • Splitting Images: Cultural Techniques of Separation and Combination / Maja-Lisa Müller
  • Soft Dissection / Rebecca Puchta
  • Epistemological Zoomings into Post-Digital Reality, or How to Deal with Digital Images? Mimesis as a Methodological Approach / Elisa Linseisen
  • Context and Perspective: On Challenges of (New) Media Criticism / Franziska Winter
  • A CCTV Image that Dissolves like Smeared Data: Distinguishability versus Similarity / Sebastian Althoff
  • OMG FML RN (LOL): Feels, Images, and Memory in the Digital Ether / David Ashley Kerr
  • Re/Dis-Solved Selves: (Re)Searching Selfies, (Inter)Facing the Face / Julia Eckel
  • Notes on Contributors / Sebastian Althoff, Elisa Linseisen, Maja-Lisa Müller and Franziska Winter.