Deborah Levitt, Author at Public Seminar

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How Does Animation Change our Concept of Life and What Kind of Ethics Does it Require?

A Conversation with Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt

October 26, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt and Bettine Josties

Public Seminar (PS): Deborah, in your recently published book The Animatic Apparatus. Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image you claim that animation is the dominant medium of our time and propose the concept of the animatic apparatus as a dispositif, that is, as a kind of organizing mechanics for contemporary culture. Can ...

In Search of an Ethics for the Age of Animation

An Excerpt from Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt’s Latest Book

October 25, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt

In her recently published book The Animatic Apparatus. Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image media historian and theorist Deborah Levitt claims that animation is the dominant medium of our time and proposes the concept of the animatic apparatus as an organizing mechanics for contemporary culture. In the following excerpt from ...

Five Theses on Virtual Reality and Sociality

Understanding the implications of radically new experiences

May 10, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt

The first published use of the term “virtual reality” is found in Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and its Double, in a section in which he asserts that alchemy and theater have in common that they are virtual arts. For Artaud, writing in 1933, there’s nothing technologically novel about virtual reality; it ...