Daniel Strutt
Affect and Digital Synthesis: Digitality’s Passive Grammatisation of Reality
I set forth the proposition that digital media has a changing effect on consciousness of existence. This becomes an extension on classical and early film theory which examined how the moving image impacted on thought about metaphysical notions of space and time, asking what does, and what does not, change within the new ‘grammatisation’ of digital media (Stiegler 2004). The principle purpose of the project is thus to look at the affective dynamics of digital media as being a passive synthesis of our embodied understanding of reality, to assess what is changing or transforming as an evolving awareness of existence in digitality. This also involves establishing a discourse that these changes might have an ethical effect in refracting and opening-up modernist modes of metaphysical thought.
Daniel is AHRC funded and in his 3rd year of study.
He studied both undergraduate BA Cultural Studies and Communications, and Postgraduate MA Screen Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.