Finitude's Score Essays for the End of the Millennium

Name: Finitude's Score Essays for the End of the Millennium
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ISBN: 9780803289499

ISBN-10: 0803289499

ISBN-13: 9780803289499

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Authors: Avital Ronell

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Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too far”: “One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This…

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 6/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Finitude's Score


Queens of the Night


Hitting the Streets: Ecce Fama


Street-Talk


The Sujet Suppositaire: Freud, And/Or, the Obsessional Neurotic Style (Maybe)


Taking it Philosophically: Torquato Tasso's Women as Theorists


Namely, Eckermann


Doing Kafka in The Castle: A Poetics of Desire


Starting from Scratch: Mastermix


The Worst Neighborhoods of the Real: Philosophy - Telephone - Contamination


The Walking Switchboard


The Differends of Man


Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm


Activist Supplement: Papers on the Gulf War


TraumaTV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle


Notes


Index