Book Reviews by Jack Z L Booth
Alphaville , 2020
Review of Martin Johnson's book about the history of Local Film in the U.S. The review looks at h... more Review of Martin Johnson's book about the history of Local Film in the U.S. The review looks at his use of mutual recogonition as form of spectatorship that engenders 'intimacy and empathy' and how this acts transhistorically to negates more historically pertinent attitudes around visibility and citizenship.
Nordicom Review, 2019
Review of Joanna Zylinska, Nonhuman Photography
Film Studies, 2019
Review of We are Data and The Datafied Society.
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2019
Book Review of After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation by Erika Balsom
Visual Studies, 2019
Book Review of A capsule aesthetic: feminist materialism in new media art
by Kate Mondloch
New Media and Society, 2019
New media incessantly create objects. The burgeoning of new media artefacts has formed various ar... more New media incessantly create objects. The burgeoning of new media artefacts has formed various areas of study: Free Labour, Networks, F/OSS, Software Studies, Cyberspace and Digital Methods. These are informed by methodologies such as mediatisation, media ecology and media archaeology, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, cybernetics phenomenology and postphenomenology. Postphenomenology helps analyse new media, the editors of Postphenomenology and Media inform us, through locating how they are 'moving into our bodies, or at least into our bodily activity and behaviour', which ultimately creates an environment of media 'ubiquity, digitality, and seamlessness' (p. xxvii). In order to unpick this fluid state, postphenomenology is 'specifically oriented towards an analysis of transparency-opacity ratios, multistability, multiple types of human-technology-world relations, perception and understanding, micro-and macroperception dynamics' (p. xxvi). The collection looks at how postphenomenology can tackle new media in three parts: the first part aims at 'scouting the perimeters' of new media to provide a framework for the rest of the book, part two uses case studies to outline how postphenomenology can be applied and part three examines postphenomenology as a
Transnational Screens, 2019
Trespassing Journal, 2018
Book Review of Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image by Belinda Smaill
New Formations , 2018
Review of Sarah R. Davies, Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement, Cambridge and Malden, Polity ... more Review of Sarah R. Davies, Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement, Cambridge and Malden, Polity Press, 2017, 192pp
NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 2018
Articles by Jack Z L Booth
Strelka, 2020
In his 1987 essay “Can Thought Go On Without A Body?” the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard saw t... more In his 1987 essay “Can Thought Go On Without A Body?” the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard saw thought as inseparable from the body; the body is the hardware in which the software—thought—exists. Hardware, however, can become faulty, whilst software can be updated and transferred to a different host. I will examine here if the field of machine-machine vision represented by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) offers a challenge to Lyotard’s claim that thought and body are inseparable, and by doing so will discuss the limits of this type of artificial intelligence.
This article was published at: https://strelkamag.com/en/article/machine-reveries-and-the-possibility-of-thought-beyond-the-human-body
The word doc attached is the final draft I sent before it went to the editor.
Viewfinder Magazine, May 14, 2019
Discussion of how traits of toxic masculinity are represented in cinema, particularly focusing on... more Discussion of how traits of toxic masculinity are represented in cinema, particularly focusing on the film The House that Jack Built. For a definition of toxic masculinity I use the work of psychologist Terry Kupers and link this to work done by Berardi on masculinity and its conjunction with neoliberalism.
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Book Reviews by Jack Z L Booth
by Harman Sagger, Jack Philips, and Mohammed Haque, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (2021), pp. 1–26. Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/955203/GOV.UK_-_Framework_Accessible_v2.pdf
Articles by Jack Z L Booth
This article was published at: https://strelkamag.com/en/article/machine-reveries-and-the-possibility-of-thought-beyond-the-human-body
The word doc attached is the final draft I sent before it went to the editor.