The intoxication of destruction in theory, culture and media : a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille /

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This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with, destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning w...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stapleton, Erin K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Bataille, Georges, > 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation.
Bataille, Georges, > 1897-1962
Aesthetics.
Mass media > Philosophy.
Médias > Philosophie.
Philosophy.
Media studies.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction.
Aesthetics
Mass media > Philosophy
Destruction, Media, Culture, Queer Theory, Posthumanism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The Intoxication of Destruction
  • Introduction: Destruction and Immortality
  • Destruction I: Energy. Part 1: The General Economy
  • Part 2: Sovereignty and Heterogeneity
  • Destruction II: World. Part 1: Exploding Monuments (The Destruction Of Architecture)
  • Part 2: Extinction (The Destruction of Everyone Else)
  • Destruction III: Body. Part 1: Spectacular Expenditure (from Sacrifice to Execution)
  • Part 2: Eroticism (The Destruction of Sexuality)
  • Destruction IV: Matter. Part 1: Accelerating Destruction (The Material of Media)
  • Part 2: The Material of the Digital (Computational Immortality)
  • Conclusion: The Destroyers.

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