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Critical ambience

Dovey, Jon; Hayler, Matthew

Authors

Jon Dovey Jonathan.Dovey@uwe.ac.uk
Research Centre Director DCRC/ Professor

Matthew Hayler



Contributors

Pullinger Kate
Editor

Abstract

This chapter argues that ambient cultural practices can be reframed as critically focused experiences rather than either passive backgrounds or immersive entertainment. We argue that ambient literature can leave the reader or listener with a heightened sense of our interconnection with, and responsibilities to, our shared worlds. A critical awareness of this situation may well be fundamental to advancing socially, environmentally, and politically engaged practices in emergent forms of ‘extended reality’ media. Moreover, we want to argue that practices of critical ambience can speak back to some of the current problems posed by the totalizing discursive framings of ‘immersion’.

Citation

Dovey, J., & Hayler, M. (2020). Critical ambience. In T. Abba, J. Dovey, & P. Kate (Eds.), Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices (141-161). (1). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41456-6

Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2020
Online Publication Date Dec 31, 2020
Publication Date Dec 31, 2020
Deposit Date Nov 6, 2020
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 141-161
Edition 1
Book Title Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices
Chapter Number 7
ISBN 9783030414559
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41456-6
Keywords ambient cultural practices, immersive entertainment, extended reality
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6829888
Publisher URL https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030414559