Virilio and Visual Culture
Published on 15. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-7486-5444-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
The diversity of the contributors in this collection testifies to Virilio's rich life of intellectual engagement, from the 1950s and his writings on architecture through to the 1980s and his more celebrated contributions to debates on the sociocultural effects of cinematics, vision technologies, surveillance and the role of accelerated cultural developments in advanced societies ... There is much in these essays to satisfy the high theorist and researcher, and also the museum curator, painter and student of visual culture. As Sylvere Lotringer claims, this work is a 'breakthrough in Virilio Studies'. I agree and it is long overdue. -- Enda Mccaffrey, Nottingham Trent University * Modern & Contemporary France * Finally all the facets of Paul Virilio's visionary work expertly analyzed and summarized in one book. A truly amazing project which reads like science-fiction in the present tense. * Sylvere Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder of Semiotext(e) *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
31 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-5444-4 (9780748654444)
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Persons
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).
Content
Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture, John Armitage and Ryan Bishop; 2. The Illusions of Zero Time, Paul Virilio; 3. Towards a New Ecology of Time, Joy Garnett; 4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception, John Beck; 5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge', Caren Kaplan; 6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War, John Phillips; 7. History in the 'Mis-en-Abyme of the Body': Ranbir Kaleka and the 'Art of Auschwitz' after Virilio, Tania Roy; 8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul's 'Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost', Ryan Bishop; 9. The Event, Jordan Crandall; 10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art, John Armitage; 11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation, Benjamin H. Bratton; 12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide, Gair Dunlop; 13. The Production of the Present, Ian James; Notes on Contributors; Index.