Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain (Leonardo)

Biopolitical Screens is a groundbreaking investigation into the aesthetics and politics of new visual media under twenty-first-century capitalism.

This book delves into the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality, exploring how screen media harness human minds and bodies in networks of finance, war, and entertainment consumption.

Drawing on current neuroscience and political and economic thought, the author argues that these images shape atomistic individuals in the neoliberal world of accumulation and war.

With a broad notion of the image as both visible and sayable, the book offers focused investigations into the visual economy, including the use of first-person shooter video games as tools of "neuropower," the design and construction of virtual reality technologies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and three instances of video installation art that have the power to disrupt the dominant regime of sensibility.

This thought-provoking book is an important contribution to the study of visual culture and a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how our screens shape our world.