Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium - Brossura

Ronell, Avital

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0803289499 ISBN 13: 9780803289499

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too far”: “One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This possibility has to be considered if we, as a species, as a history, are going to get anywhere at all.”

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L'autore:

Avital Ronell’s books include The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) and CrackWars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), both published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is chair of and professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and a professor of comparative literature at New York University.

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Book by Ronell Avital

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803289499
• ISBN 13: 9780803289499
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368