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.)

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'.

Table of Contents

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