Virilio and Visual Culture / / Ryan Bishop, John Armitage.

The first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and moreThis collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual cultu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Critical Connections : CRCO
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 31 B/W illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
List of Figures --
Contributors --
1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture --
2. The Illusions of Zero Time --
3. Towards a New Ecology of Time --
4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception --
5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of ‘Genuine Knowledge’ --
6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War --
7. History in the ‘Mise en Abyme of the Body’: Ranbir Kaleka and the ‘Art of Auschwitz’ after Virilio --
8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul’s Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost --
9. The Event --
10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art --
11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation --
12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide --
13. The Production of the Present --
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Summary:The first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and moreThis collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture.Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.Key featuresA wide-ranging treatment of Virilio's key theoretical concepts and themes from across his work on visual culture so farSurveys Virilio's aesthetics and socio-cultural ideas and how they function within his highly politicised approach to visual cultureExamines Virilio's thinking from his initial works on war and cinema to his latest theoretical conjectures on art, perception and seeing
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780748654468
9783110780468
DOI:10.1515/9780748654468
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Ryan Bishop, John Armitage.