The Aesthetics of Disappearance
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2009
Summary
Virilio introduces his understanding of “picnolepsy”-the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed.Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a “juncture” in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception-a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the “vision machine.” If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural-and still consummate-theorist of “dromology” (the theory of speed and the society it def…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350743 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350741 |
| Author: | Paul Virilio, Jonathan Crary, Phil Beitchman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
About The Author
Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e).Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. A founding editor of Zone Books, he is the author of Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press, 1990) and coeditor of Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992). He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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