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Author : Paul Virilio
Publisher : Semiotext(e)
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Paul Virilio traces out the relationship of biological optics to the technological production of appearance.
Author : Paul Virilio
Publisher : Semiotext(e)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Author : John Armitage
Publisher : Polity
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745648770
Cutting-edge introduction to and extension of the work of Paul Virilio and it's current directions. Contains contributions by the world's leading Virilio scholars, as well as a newly-translated text by Virilio.
Author : Redhead Steve Redhead
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1474471889
A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has taught us that much media image is a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. In these times of fierce conflict over which kind of capitalism is to take over the shrinking globe, and indeed which modernities we will live in during the twenty-first century, Paul Virilio is a significant contemporary theorist. But Virilio's work, originally published in French and stretching back to the 1950s, has until now been very difficult to access in full in English translation, available as it is in expensive little books or obscure catalogues and journals. The Paul Virilio Reader collects together for the first time readable extracts of Virilio's work from the entire range of his career. It is prefaced by an editorial introduction showing that Virilio has produced important - if controversial - 'theory at the speed of light' that can uncannily illuminate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world which collapses time and distance as never before. Features* Extracts have been carefully selected to reflect the whole of Virilio's diverse career* A chronological ordering illustrates the development, and interconnectedness, of Virilio's work* Each extract is prefaced by a bibliographical and contextual commentary, and the book is completed by an innovative guide to reading Virilio.
Author : Kitty Hauser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199206325
At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape. At a time of rapid modernisation and urbanisation in mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanteda number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into evocative interpretations of the landscape and looks at the affinities betweenphotography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence.
Author : Gia Cribbs
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1488088926
No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan. Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection program or, as it’s officially called, the Witness Security Program? Yeah, the WITSEC folks definitely don’t want me talking to you. But I don’t care. I have to tell someone. If I don’t, you’ll never know how completely wrong things can go. How a single decision can change everything. How, when it really comes down to it, you can’t trust anyone. Not even yourself. You have to understand, so it won’t happen to you next. Because you never know when the person sitting next to you isn’t who they claim to be…and because there are worse things than disappearing.
Author : Dorota Glowacka
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295804157
In Disappearing Traces, Dorota Glowacka examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present. She engages with the work of leading 20th-century philosophers and theorists, including Levinas, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Derrida, to consider the role of language in the construction and transmission of traumatic memories; the relation between self-identity and the act of bearing witness; and the ethical implications of representing trauma. Glowacka's work draws on a wide range of discourses and disciplines, bringing into conversation various genres of writing and artistic production. It reveals the need to find innovative idioms and new means of engaging with the past, and to create alliances between different disciplines and modes of representing the past that transform and transcend existing paradigms of representation.
Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547577451
Award-winning novelist Anita Desai explores time and transformation in these three artful novellas
Author : Kutter Callaway
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506439896
To really understand God, you have to understand atheism. Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism need each other. In fact, atheism offers profound and necessary theological insights into the heart of Christianity itself. To get at these truths, Callaway and Taylor dive into the aesthetic dimensions of atheism, using everything from Stranger Things to Damien Hirst's controversial sculptures to the music of David Bowie, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen. This journey through contemporary culture and its imagination offers readers a deeper understanding of theology, culture, and how to engage faith in a chaotic and complex world where God is present in the most unexpected place: atheism.
Author : Peter Sloterdijk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074569988X
In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight he considers the key issues that have faced thinkers from Aristotle to Adorno, looking at art in its relation to ethics, metaphysics, society, politics, anthropology and the subject. Sloterdijk explores a variety of topics, from the Greco-Roman invention of postcards to the rise of the capitalist art market, from the black boxes and white cubes of modernism to the growth of museums and memorial culture. In doing so, he extends his characteristic method of defamiliarization to transform the way we look at works of art and artistic movements. His bold and original approach leads us away from the well-trodden paths of conventional art history to develop a theory of aesthetics which rejects strict categorization, emphasizing instead the crucial importance of individual subjectivity as a counter to the latent dangers of collective culture. This sustained reflection, at once playful, serious and provocative, goes to the very heart of Sloterdijk’s enduring philosophical preoccupation with the aesthetic. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and aesthetics and will appeal to anyone interested in culture and the arts more generally.