The Virilio Dictionary / / John Armitage.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Armitage, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Armitage, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophical Dictionaries : PHDI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

The first dictionary dedicated to the pioneering work of French art and technology critic Paul VirilioGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748646845','ISBN:9780748646852','ISBN:9780748646838','ISBN:9780748682317']);In Virilio's writings, meanings and interpretations are often difficult and ambiguous. This dictionary guides you through his concepts with headwords including Accident, Body, Cinema, Deterritorialization and Eugenics. Explore the very edge of Virilio’s pioneering thought in cultural and social theory with the entries on Foreclosure, Grey Ecology, Polar Inertia and the Overexposed City.The Virilio Dictionary is ideal for anyone wanting to keep up with Virilio's dynamic program for the study of postmodern culture.Key FeaturesOver 100 entries cover every major Virilian subject and idea, showing how each functions within his philosophy in all of his writing to dateClearly written and cross-referenced entries make it quick and easy for you to find what you’re looking for and follow the threads of Virilio’s thoughtFull List of EntriesAAccident • Accident of Art • Accident Museum • Accident of Science • Aesthetics of Disappearance • Architecture • Art • Art of the MotorBBaudrillard, Jean • Body • Bunker ArcheologyCCatastrophe • Chronopolitics • Church of Saint-Bernadette Du Banlay • Cinema • City • City of Panic • Claustropolis • Critical Space • Cybernetic, Cybernetics • CyberspaceDDecomposition • Deleuze, Gilles • Desert Screen • Deterritorialisation • Dromology • Dromoeconomics • Dromomania, Dromomaniacs • Dromoscopy • DromosphereEEndo-Colonisation • Escape Velocity • Events • Eye LustFFast Feminism • Fear • Feminism • Foreclosure • FuturismGGlobalisation • Great Accelerator • Grey Ecology • Ground ZeroHHusserl, Edmund • HypermodernismIInformation BombKKittler, Friedrich, ALLandscape of Events • Law of Proximity • Logistics of PerceptionMMass Individualism • Media • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice • Military–Industrial Complex • Military Space • Modernity, Modernism • Movement, MobilityNNegative HorizonOOptics • Orbital Space • Original Accident • Overexposed CityPPerception • Phenomenology • Picnolepsy • Pitiless Art • Place • Polar Inertia • Political Economy of Speed • Politics • Politics of the Very Worst • Postmodernity, Postmodernism • Propaganda of Progress • Pure WarRReal Time • Resistance • Revolutionary, RevelationarySSedentariness • Space-Time • Speed • Speed-Space • State • State of Emergency • Stereo-Reality • Stop-Eject • Strategy of the Beyond • Suicidal StateTTechnology • Tendency • Territory • Theory • Third Interval • TrajectoryUUltracity • Unknown Quantity • University of DisasterVVision Machine • Virtual RealityWWar • WritingContributorsJason Adams, Williams College, USAOlga Alekseeva-Carnevali, Lancaster University, UKJohn Armitage, Northumbria University, UKJohn Beck, Newcastle University, UKJosiane Behmoiras, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaShannon Bell, York University, Toronto, CanadaRyan Bishop, University of Southampton, UKRob Bullard, Teesside and Northumbria Universities, UKDrew S. Burk, Univocal PublishingDavid B. Clarke, Swansea University, UKFelicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKVerena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University, USATom Conley, Harvard University, USAGerry Coulter, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Entries A–Z -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors