Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory) - Hardcover

Adler, Anthony Curtis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823270793 ISBN 13: 9780823270798

Publisher: Modern Language Initiative, 2016

Synopsis

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go “back to the things themselves” when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental theoretical interventions, Anthony Curtis Adler rethinks Marxist materialism and the Heideggerian project in terms of the singular experiences of late capitalism. In doing so, he reveals how the disarticulation of life via the commodity fetish demands at once a new notion of phenomenological method and an ontology oriented toward the radical contingency of being itself as transcendental ground.

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About the Author

Anthony Curtis Adler is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in South Korea.

Review

"In Celebricities, Anthony Curtis Adler gives us Heidegger watching TV, Marx playing with his cell phone, and Althusser contemplating celebrity. Thinking the popular with the philosophical gives us new and dynamic understandings of the commodity form, ontology, and ideology as well as aphorisms for some of the most pressing political questions of our age." -- Christopher Breu

"In Celebricities, Anthony Curtis Adler gives us Heidegger watching TV, Marx playing with his cell phone, and Althusser contemplating celebrity. Thinking the popular with the philosophical gives us new and dynamic understandings of the commodity form, ontology, and ideology as well as aphorisms for some of the most pressing political questions of our age."-Christopher Breu, Illinois State University

..".Celebricities is a forceful meditation on the tradition of "theory" as such and on the possibility and impossibility of "theory" now."--Syndicate

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0823270793
• ISBN 13: 9780823270798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264