Aesthetics of Disappearance

Name: Aesthetics of Disappearance
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ISBN: 9781584350743

ISBN-10: 1584350741

ISBN-13: 9781584350743

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Paul Virilio, Jonathan Crary, Philip Beitchman

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Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perceptiona logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politicsestablished Virilio as the inauguraland still consummatetheorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearanceintroduced his understanding of "picnolepsy"the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it. Speed and Politicsdefined the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Semiotexte/Smart Art
Publication date: 4/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English