Armitage Virilio and the Media

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6131-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Theory and Media

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War andCinema, The Lost Dimension, and The VisionMachine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we thinkabout contemporary media culture. Virilio's examinations ofthe connections between perception, logistics, the city, and newmedia technologies comprise some of the most powerful texts withinhis hypermodern philosophy.
Virilio and the Media presents an introduction toVirilio's important media related ideas, from polar inertiaand the accident to the landscape of events, cities of panic, andthe instrumental image loop of television. John Armitage positionsVirilio's essential media texts in their theoretical contextswhilst outlining their substantial influence on recent culturalthinking. Consequently, Armitage renders Virilio's mediatexts accessible, priming his readers to create individual criticalevaluations of Virilio's writings. The book closes with anannotated and user-friendly Guide to Further Reading and anon-technical Glossary of Virilio's significantconcepts.
Virilio's texts on the media are vital for everyone concernedwith contemporary media culture, and Virilio and the Mediaoffers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the everexpanding range of his critical media and cultural works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armitage, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
1 The Aesthetics of Disappearance 24
2 Cinema, War, and the Logistics of Perception 47
3 New Media: Vision, Inertia, and the Mobile Phone 71
4 City of Panic: The Instrumental Image Loop of Television and Media Events 95
5 The Work of the Critic of the Art of Technology: The Museum of Accidents 117
Conclusion 140
Guide to Further Reading 150
Glossary 158
References 164
Index 172

Über Autor(innen)

John Armitage is professor of media at Northumbria University.