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The art of the real : visual studies and new materialisms /

Art of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominated by post-structuralist theory and its attendant nominalism. More recently, however, the materialism of Slavoj Žižek, the realism of Gilles Deleuze, e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rothman, Roger (Editor ), Verstegen, Ian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Art of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominated by post-structuralist theory and its attendant nominalism. More recently, however, the materialism of Slavoj Žižek, the realism of Gilles Deleuze, especially as imputed by Manuel de Landa, and Alain Badiou has disrupted this status quo. Today, we are more likely to take for granted the relevance of biology and the natural sciences, while the return of Marx has been more serious than countenanced by Derrida or Foucault. This book considers visual.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (195 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
ISBN:9781443883283
144388328X