Virilio and Visual Culture - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0748654453 ISBN 13: 9780748654451

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

The first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.

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Recensione:

Finally all the facets of Paul Virilio's visionary work expertly analysed and summarised in one book. A truly amazing project which reads like science-fiction in the present tense. --Sylvère Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University and Founder of Semiotext(e)

For nearly 40 years, Paul Virilio has confronted apocalypse. From the Blitzkrieg of his childhood to catastrophes of 21st century technology, he has contemplated and produced images of apocalypse, and the apocalypse of images. Armitage and Bishop have packed their book with analyses and interpretations of Virilio's radical and revelatory poetics of a simultaneously intensifying and unravelling visuality, creating their own oblique architecture to disturb and renew the oeuvre of one of the least predictable thinkers of the fin-de-millennium. --Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

L'autore:

John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He co-edits Cultural Politics (Duke UP) with Ryan Bishop and Doug Kellner, and he has edited or written four books on Paul Virilio. His research areas include contemporary art, new media and the critical theory of technology.

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at Winchester School of Art and Co-Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media at the University of Southampton. He co-edits Cultural Politics (Duke UP) with John Armitage and Doug Kellner, and he edits the book series Theory Now for Polity Press. His research areas include critical theory, art, media, literary studies, technology, urbanism and militarisation of daily life.

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0748654453
• ISBN 13: 9780748654451
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Redattore: Armitage John, Bishop Ryan