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Lyotard and the inhuman condition : reflections on nihilism, information, and art /
Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanism. Ashley 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Technicities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanism. Ashley 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 impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio. Jean-FranÃʹois Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide-ranging and highly original contributions to thought were overshadowed by his brief, unfortunate association with 'postmodernism.' Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 213 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474404914 147440491X 9780748697250 074869725X |