The political life of placeholders: poetics of sacrifice in digital video art
This book analyses how digital image production changes the way in which human beings identify themselves with and through visual and informational imagery. It traces the political implications of everyday processes of digitalization by confronting Franz Kafka’s literary work with contemporary digit...
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| author | Willemars, Ilios Franciscus David Martin Ronald |
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| description | This book analyses how digital image production changes the way in which human beings identify themselves with and through visual and informational imagery. It traces the political implications of everyday processes of digitalization by confronting Franz Kafka’s literary work with contemporary digital video art by makers like Cécile B. Evans and Ed Atkins. Suggesting that a new reflection on the notion of sacrifice and poetics may be needed today more than ever, these analyses employ the concept of the placeholder to make sense of our representational episteme. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1733432026-03-04T14:49:22Z The political life of placeholders: poetics of sacrifice in digital video art Willemars, Ilios Franciscus David Martin Ronald Digital image; Processes of digitalization; Franz Kafka’s; Contemporary digital video; Art; Cécile B. Evans; Ed Atkins; Placeholder thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media arts This book analyses how digital image production changes the way in which human beings identify themselves with and through visual and informational imagery. It traces the political implications of everyday processes of digitalization by confronting Franz Kafka’s literary work with contemporary digital video art by makers like Cécile B. Evans and Ed Atkins. Suggesting that a new reflection on the notion of sacrifice and poetics may be needed today more than ever, these analyses employ the concept of the placeholder to make sense of our representational episteme. Published 2026-03-04T14:49:16Z 2026-03-04T14:49:16Z 2025-04 book 9789725410844 9789725410837 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173343 eng The Lisbon Consortium T(h)ESES image/png Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.uceditora.ucp.pt/pt/the-lisbon-consortium-theses/3426-the-political-life-of-placeholders.html https://openbooks.ucp.pt/ucp/catalog/book/233 UCP Press Universidade Católica Editora https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725410844 https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725410844 0b4b138c-798a-4e38-a409-ed94b98d8756 9789725410844 9789725410837 Universidade Católica Editora 272 Lisbon open access |
| spellingShingle | Digital image; Processes of digitalization; Franz Kafka’s; Contemporary digital video; Art; Cécile B. Evans; Ed Atkins; Placeholder thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media arts Willemars, Ilios Franciscus David Martin Ronald The political life of placeholders: poetics of sacrifice in digital video art |
| title | The political life of placeholders: poetics of sacrifice in digital video art |
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| topic | Digital image; Processes of digitalization; Franz Kafka’s; Contemporary digital video; Art; Cécile B. Evans; Ed Atkins; Placeholder thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media arts |
| topic_facet | Digital image; Processes of digitalization; Franz Kafka’s; Contemporary digital video; Art; Cécile B. Evans; Ed Atkins; Placeholder thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media arts |
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