Concept Horror (Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol.4) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955308739 ISBN 13 : 9780955308734

Editeur : Urbanomic, 2008

Synopsis

Collapse IV features a series of investigations by philosophers, writers and artists into Concept Horror. Contributors address the existential, aesthetic, theological and political dimensions of horror, interrogate its peculiar affinity with philosophical thought, and uncover the horrors that may lie in wait for those who pursue rational thought beyond the bounds of the reasonable. This unique volume continues Collapse's pursuit of indisciplinary miscegenation, the wide-ranging contributions interacting to produce common themes and suggestive connections. In the process a rich and compelling case emerges for the intimate bond between horror and philosophical thought. Contents: ROBIN MACKAY Editorial Introduction; GEORGE SIEG Infinite Regress into Self-Referential Horror: The Gnosis of the Victim; EUGENE THACKER Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror; RAFANI Czech Forest; CHINA MIÉVILLE M. R. James and the Quantum Vampire: Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or?; REZA NEGARESTANI The Corpse Bride: Thinking with Nigredo; JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN I Can See; MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Poems; JAMES TRAFFORD The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti and the Illusion of Selfhood; THOMAS LIGOTTI / OLEG KULIK Thinking Horror / 'Memento Mori'; QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX Spectral Dilemma; BENJAMIN NOYS Horror Temporis; IAIN HAMILTON GRANT / TODOSCH Being and Slime: The Mathematics of Protoplasm in Lorenz Oken's 'Physio-Philosophy' / Drawings; STEVEN SHEARER Poems; GRAHAM HARMAN / KEITH TILFORD On the Horror of Phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl / Singular Agitations and a Common Vertigo; KRISTEN ALVANSON Arbor Deformia; Notes on Contributors -- Published in an edition comprising numbered copies 1-950 and 50 hors-commerce copies. Out of print.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

With contributions from: Sean Ashton, Nigel Cooke, Elie Ayache, Amanda Beech, Michel Bitbol, Jean Cavaillès, Milan Cirkovic, John M. Coates, Mark Gurnell, Zoltan Sarnyai, Steve Forte, GegenSichKollektiv, Nick Land, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Sam Lewitt, Suhail Malik, Quentin Meillassoux, Jean-Luc Moulène, Anders Kristian Munk, Jon Roffe, Natasha Dow Schüll, Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, David Walsh, Fernando Zalamea

Collapse VIII examines a pervasive image of thought drawn from games of chance. In order to survey those practices in which intellectual resources are most acutely concentrated on the production and exploitation of risk, and to uncover the conceptual underpinnings of methods developed to extract value from contingency - in the casino, in the markets, in life - the volume brings together contributors who extend the philosophical thinking of contingency beyond the 'casino' model, gamblers whose experience gives them the authority to considerably refine our understanding of what it means to master chance, researchers who analyse the operation and experience of risk in diverse arenas, and artists whose work addresses both the desire to confront chance and the desire to tame it by bringing it to order.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Urbanomic
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955308739
• ISBN 13: 9780955308734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Mackay Robin James
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible