Neptune Frost by Steven Shaviro - 9798765161913

Neptune FrostMovies Minute by Minute\nAuthor(s): Steven Shaviro\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9798765161913, 979-8765161913\nSynopsis\nA minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeymans and Saul Williams film, Neptune Frost [tel].\n\nThis book traces the complex structure of the film, working through its rich tapestry of images and sounds while exploring its dual themes of resource exploitation and extraction and gender oppression.\n\nNeptune Frost shows how Africa stands at both ends of the production cycle: minerals are mined from the soil and sent to the West to make electronic devices, and the detritus of broken and obsolete devices is ultimately sent back to Africa to be abandoned in waste dumps. An indigenous community of hackers establishes a utopian community in the midst of these wastes and seeks to seize power over the network. At the same time, the movie centers upon a trans character, who starts .