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The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 (An October Book) - Hardcover
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In postwar France, the aesthetics of appropriation and collage gave cultural form to a struggle over meaning. A new wave of avant-garde experimentation used -- or stole, plagiarized, and expropriated -- elements from advertising, journalism, literature, art, and other sources of common discourse (the ironically named "beautiful language" of this book's title, itself an appropriation from Guy Debord's collaged Mémoires). Redeployed, often in startling or pointed juxtapositions, these elements...
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Larry Press is Professor of Information Systems atCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills. He isalso a member of the Mosaic Group, which hasbeen conducting research on the global diffusion ofthe Internet since 1995.
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0262134772
- ISBN 13 9780262134774
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages273
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