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The Kubrickon

Autor Jasun Horsley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2023
Stanley Kubrick was up to something. But neither his fiercest admirers nor his harshest critics ever suspected what it was. His movies were the means. So what was the end?
In this experimental analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick, Jasun Horsley unpicks the cult of Kubrick, taking a unique approach as he delves into the deeper - and often darker - reasons as to why the director has achieved such admiration over the years.
The Kubrickon maps an unholy merger of computer and behavioral sciences that has shaped not just politics but all of modern society over the past decade (e.g. Cambridge Analytica).
It explores Stanley Kubrick's intensive, secret, insider involvement in the building of an architecture of algorithm-directed technology that has steadily encroached into our inner realms, cementing a symbiotic relationship between human consciousness and technology, with culture as the binding medium of an attention economy.
Throughout The Kubrickon Horsley uses Kubrick's critically acclaimed films such as Eyes Wide Shut and 2001: Space Odyssey to provide a fascinating and revelatory overview of the cultural obsession with Stanley Kubrick, as well as on a wider scale providing illuminating criticisms of society's consumption of culture and media. 
For those who dislike Kubrick movies, The Kubrickon will finally absolve you of all uncertainty and guilt. For those who adore Kubrick movies, The Kubrickon will challenge you to the core, and may just set you free. For those who are indifferent to Kubrick movies, The Kubrickon will reward you by making you care about, and nurture, your indifference.¿
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781801520560
ISBN-10: 1801520569
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 164 x 243 x 60 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: AEON BOOKS LTD

Notă biografică

Jasun Horsley is the author of several books, including the loose 'cultural engineering' trilogy Seen and Not Seen, Prisoner of Infinity and The Vice of Kings. He hosts a regular podcast, The Liminalist, at his website, Auticulture.

Cuprins

CONTENTS
 
INTRODUCTION
Confessions of a sick mind (Stanley Kubrick's Atrocity Exhibition)
His hands were tied (the Kubrick vacuum)
Secret pedophile elites
Culturally co-opted cognitive counterfeits
King culture
 
PART I - THE ARCHITECTURE OF IMMERSION
 
CHAPTER 1 - Children of Kubrick
The man
Deny all knowledge
Immersion criticism
Extraordinary facts and ridiculous flights of hermeneutic fantasy
 
CHAPTER 2 - Full metal emperor
Needful guesswork
Cultural warfare
The very idea of greatness, or: Stanley is as Stanley does
The works of Satan
 
CHAPTER 3 - Crossing the Kubrickon
Under the seat
The Overlook, again
The "final" answer?
A two-way mirror
 
PART II - AGENT STANLEY
 
CHAPTER 4 - How the solar system was won
The anomaly of Kubrick's optimistic vision of the future of man
Theft as art
Arthur C. Clarke's goldfish bowl
KUBARK: sinister associations
 
CHAPTER 5 - Clockwork conspiracy theories
Some facts about Stanley
Learning from The Master
Agent Orange
A clean-minded pornographer
 
CHAPTER 6 - The lost language of the body
Kubrick, DARPA, Simulmatics
A computational theocracy
Enter the dragon
The apple of knowledge
 
PART III - KING VS KING
 
CHAPTER 7 - The silver key
The wasp's nest
An I for an I
The writer's block
The golden Bowman
 
CHAPTER 8 - White man's burden, or: the Grand Unified Theory of The Shining (GUTS)
The axe blow
Historic trauma transmission (Sons of Saturn)
Adult boy
The secret ally
 
CHAPTER 9 - Hive mind
Word vs image
Games of thrones
Behold the para-self
DID Meets DOD: the AI breakthrough
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
END NOTES
INDEX