Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition : : Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art / / Ashley Woodward.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Woodward, Ashley,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Technicities : TECH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editors' Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Beyond the Postmodern? The Inhuman Condition --; 1. The End of Time: Evolution, Extinction, and the Fate of Meaning --; 2. Information and Event: Lyotard's Philosophy of Information --; 3. Economy, Ecology, Organology: On Technics and Desire --; 4. Nihilism and the Sublime: The Crisis of Perception --; 5. Aesthēsis and Technē: New Technologies and Lyotard's Aesthetics --; 6. Immaterial Matter: Yves Klein and the Aesthetics of the Sensible --; 7. Inhuman Arts: From Cubism to New Media --; Conclusion: The Judgement of the Inhuman --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748697250; 9783110780444
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748697250?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ashley Woodward.

Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanismAshley Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.Jean-François Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide-ranging and highly original contributions to thought were overshadowed by his brief, unfortunate association with 'postmodernism.' Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'.