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Inanimation : Theories of Inorganic Life /

"Inanimation offers a fresh account of what life is and the ethical and political consequences that follow from this conception. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's observation that 'the idea of life and afterlife in works of art should be regarded with an entirely unmetaphorical objectivit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wills, David, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Doubled lives
  • Autobiography
  • Automatic life, so life: Descartes
  • Order catastrophically unknown: Freud
  • The blushing machine: Derrida
  • Translation
  • The point if at all: Cixous and Celan
  • Naming the mechanical angel: Benjamin
  • Raw war: Schmitt, Jonger, and Joyce
  • Resonance
  • Bloodless coup: Bataille, Nancy, and Barthes
  • The audible life of the image: Godard
  • Meditations for the birds: Descartes.