The Age of Virtual Reproduction

Ulmer, Spring

ISBN 10: 0979118956 / ISBN 13: 9780979118951

Published by Essay Press, 2009

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Synopsis:

Literary Nonfiction. Spring Ulmer's THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION disrupts and redefines established patterns of seeing as she looks both at and beyond suffering and slaughter for an ethical way to live. Relentlessly in relation and in isolation, Ulmer meditates on moral and emotional anaesthesia--our age of numbing. On the road in Rwanda, investigating executions, meditating on photographs of the past, Ulmer interrogates her own and others' often romantic obsession with what is disappearing and asks how to be in touch with the real and reality--either through the self or through its loss. Looking at work by August Sander, Walter Benjamin, Congolese painter Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, John Berger, Jean Genet, Kenzaburo Oe, and others, she finds, with Benjamin, that there is no cultural document that is not at the same time a record of barbarism. THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION offers a catalogue (of people, stories, nature, and art) that maintains that more than just surviving, life can be overwhelmingly and beautifully patterned, and thus, critically, recognizable.

About the Author: Spring Ulmer grew up in the backwoods of Vermont. Her book of poetry, Benjamin's Spectacles, was selected by Sonia Sanchez for Kore Press's 2007 First Book Award. She works on a farm in Greece.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Age of Virtual Reproduction
Publisher: Essay Press
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket