Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media /
Theorizes the concept of the figural as a way to get beyond the long held aesthetic distinction between plastic and linguistic arts, a distinction that will not work for film and new media.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Presenting the Figural: The Idea of the Figural. Lyotard's Leap into the Void: The Aesthetic before the New Media. Paradoxes of the Visual, or Philosophy after the New Media
- 2. Reading the Figural: Rehearsing the Figural. Foucault through Deleuze, or The Diagrammatics of Power . Reading the Figural. The End of Modernism
- 3. The Figure and the Text. Film and the Scene of Writing: "With dreams displaced into a forest of script". Hieroglyphics, Montage, Enunciation
- 4. The Ends of the Aesthetic
- 5. The Historical Image: A Plea for the Dead. Social Hieroglyphs and the Optics of History. The Antinomic Character of Time. Anteroom Thinking, or "The Last Things before the Last"
- 6. A Genealogy of Time: Two Stories of 1968. Two Audiovisual Regimes: The Movement-Image and Time-Image. The Ends of the Dialectic and the Return of History: Hegel and Nietzsche. Genealogy, Countermemory, Event
- 7. An Uncertain Utopia: Digital Culture. An Image of Technological Abundance. A Digression on Postmodernism. Three Questions concerning Digital Culture. An Impossible Ideal of Power.