Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition : : Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art / / 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 im...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Technicities : TECH
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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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