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Published by Semiotext(e), 2009
ISBN 10: 1584350741ISBN 13: 9781584350743
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by Semiotext(e), 2009
ISBN 10: 1584350741ISBN 13: 9781584350743
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Published by Semiotext(e) May 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 1584350741ISBN 13: 9781584350743
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Trade Paperback. Condition: New. Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearanceas a 'juncture' in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto thelogistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the 'visionmachine.' If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and stillconsummate -- theorist of 'dromology' (the theory of speed and the society itdefines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of'picnolepsy' -- the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it. Speed and Politics definedthe society of speed; The Aesthetics of Disappearance defines what it feels like tolive in the society of speed.'I always write with images,' Virilio has claimed, andthis statement is nowhere better illustrated than with The Aesthetics ofDisappearance. Moving from the movie theater to the freeway, and from CraigBreedlove's attainment of terrifying speed in a rocket-power car to the immobilityof Howard Hughes in his dark room atop the Desert Inn, Virilio himself jump cutsfrom such disparate reference points as Fred Astaire, Franz Liszt, and Adolf Loos toDostoyevsky, Paul Morand, and Aldous Huxley. In its extension of the 'aesthetics ofdisappearance' to war, film, and politics, this book paved the way to Virilio'sfollow-up: the celebrated study, War and Cinema.This edition features a newintroduction by Jonathan Crary, one of the leading theorists of modern visualculture.Foreign Agents seriesDistributed for Semiotext(e) Virilio introduces his understanding of 'picnolepsy'--the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed.
Published by Semiotext(e), 2009
ISBN 10: 1584350741ISBN 13: 9781584350743
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Published by Semiotext(e), 2009
ISBN 10: 1584350741ISBN 13: 9781584350743
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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