Virilio and Visual Culture (Critical Connections) - Softcover

 
9780748654444: Virilio and Visual Culture (Critical Connections)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0748654445 ISBN 13: 9780748654444
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.

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About the Authors

John Armitage is Emeritus Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. John’s research interests include luxury and visual culture, new media art, continental philosophy, and the critical theory of technology. He is the author of Luxury and Visual Culture (2020) and Luxury Philosophy (2025).

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).

From the Back Cover

From Visual Arts to the 'War of Images,' a breakthrough in Virilio Studies.Sylvère Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder Semiotext(e)For nearly forty years, Paul Virilio has confronted apocalypse. From the Blitzkrieg of his childhood to catastrophes of 21st century technology, he has contemplated and produced images of apocalypse, and the apocalypse of images. Armitage and Bishop have packed their book with analyses and interpretations of Virilio's radical and revelatory poetics of a simultaneously intensifying and unravelling visuality, creating their own oblique architecture to disturb and renew the oeuvre of one of the least predictable thinkers of the fin-de-millennium.Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of LondonA critical appraisal of Virilio’s contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and morePaul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology working today. Reconceptualising everything from technology and photography to cultural studies and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio’s work compels readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.This anthology of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, moves between the visual and the urban, the military and the ethical, the architectural and the aesthetic, the historical and the postmodern. It is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture.John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics also at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

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From Visual Arts to the 'War of Images,' a breakthrough in Virilio Studies.Sylvère Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder Semiotext(e)For nearly forty years, Paul Virilio has confronted apocalypse. From the Blitzkrieg of his childhood to catastrophes of 21st century technology, he has contemplated and produced images of apocalypse, and the apocalypse of images. Armitage and Bishop have packed their book with analyses and interpretations of Virilio's radical and revelatory poetics of a simultaneously intensifying and unravelling visuality, creating their own oblique architecture to disturb and renew the oeuvre of one of the least predictable thinkers of the fin-de-millennium.Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of LondonA critical appraisal of Virilio s contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and morePaul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology working today. Reconceptualising everything from technology and photography to cultural studies and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio s work compels readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.This anthology of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, moves between the visual and the urban, the military and the ethical, the architectural and the aesthetic, the historical and the postmodern. It is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture.John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics also at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0748654445
ISBN 13 
9780748654444
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264
Editor
Armitage John, Bishop Ryan

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