Semblance and Event Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

Name: Semblance and Event Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
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ISBN: 9780262525367

ISBN-10: 0262525364

ISBN-13: 9780262525367

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brian Massumi, Erin Manning

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Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. Buthow do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much aswhat is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on thework of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and others, develops the concept of"semblance" as a way to approach this question. It is, he argues, aquestion of abstraction, not as the opposite of the concrete but as a dimension of it: "livedabstraction." A semblance is a lived abstraction. Massumi uses the category of the semblance toinvestigate practices of art that are relational and event-oriented -- variously known…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University ofMontrï¿½al. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect,Sensation and A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations fromDeleuze and Guattari (MIT Press).