{"product_id":"techno-ecologies-of-bill-viola-and-gilbert-simondon-the-birth-of-form-9781399554770","title":"Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth Viola and Simondon prioritise a techno-aesthetic experience that reveals a consistent pattern of interdependence between form and matter, nature and culture, human and nonhuman. Inspired by Simondon's ideas on individuation as process, and by other major figures of process philosophy such as Raymond Ruyer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Brian Massumi, Elena del Río delves deep into Viola's art and finds a politics of nature that is also a politics of the affects. In taking full account of the interrelation between collective affects and living milieus, this politics exceeds the still anthropocentric project of a politics reductively focused on environmental degradation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book works with a broad concept of ecology that encompasses a nature-culture continuum - from Simondon's associated milieu to Guattari's tripartite ecological praxis, from Deleuze and Guattari's existential territories to Massumi's affective events. Attending to this nature-culture continuum and activating our collective energies are prime strategies in tackling the overwhelming psycho-social and environmental crises we face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003edel Río, Elena:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as \u003ci\u003eAlphaville\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAngelaki\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCamera Obscura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Film Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeleuze Studies, Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFilm-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStudies in French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSubStance\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eDeleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967037899026,"sku":"9781399554770","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f07fa23b-7fc1-4630-aef9-3464c616dbc9.jpg?v=1768922007","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/techno-ecologies-of-bill-viola-and-gilbert-simondon-the-birth-of-form-9781399554770","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}