Verena Andermatt Conley (ed.): Rethinking Technologies (1993)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, autopoiesis, cyberspace, cyborg, philosophy, philosophy of technology, postmodern, science, technology, virtual reality
Grounded on the assumption that the relationship between the arts and the sciences is dictated by technology, the essays in Rethinking Technologies explore trends in contemporary thought that have been changing our awareness of science, technology, and the arts.
Contributors: Teresa Brennan, Patrick Clancy, Verena Andermatt Conley, Scott Durham, Thierry de Duve, Françoise Gaillard, Félix Guattari, N. Katherine Hayles, Alberto Moreiras, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Ingrid Scheibler, Paul Virilio.
Edited by Verena Andermatt Conley on behalf of the Miami Theory Collective (Oxford, Ohio)
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1993
ISBN 0816622159, 9780816622153
248 pages
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Comment (0)William Chaloupka: Knowing Nukes. The Politics and Culture of the Atom (1992)
Filed under book | Tags: · hyperreality, nuclear weapons, postmodern, poststructuralism, robots, star wars
Countering critics who charge that postmodern positions on language, authority, and power cannot inform effective political responses, this compelling analysis employs these same methods to examine antinuclear politics. Star Wars (the movie and the antimissile system), the Freeze movement, Reaganism, and “lifestyle” politics all receive new treatments.
Publisher U of Minnesota Press, 1992
ISBN 0816620768, 9780816620760
Length 163 pages
Chris Jenks (ed.): Visual Culture (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, aesthetics, art, phenomenology, photography, pop art, popular culture, postmodern, technoscience, television
In Visual Culture the ‘visual’ character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, ‘vision’ and the ‘visual’ are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.
Publisher Routledge, 1995
ISBN 0415106230, 9780415106238
Length 269 pages
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