Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation - Couverture rigide

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Massumi, Brian

 
9781478013747: Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
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ISBN 10 : 1478013745 ISBN 13 : 9781478013747
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multifaceted argument.

This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts, "Keywords for Affect" and "Missed Conceptions about Affect," in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and until recently, was Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Couplets, Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1478013745
ISBN 13 
9781478013747
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
408
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780822328971: Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0822328976 ISBN 13 :  9780822328971
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2002
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