Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition
Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2016
224 pages
978-0-7486-9725-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
File size
17,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-9725-0 (9780748697250)
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Content
- Intro
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Beyond the Postmodern? The Inhuman Condition
- Chapter 1 The End of Time: Evolution, Extinction, and the Fate of Meaning
- Chapter 2 Information and Event: Lyotard's Philosophy of Information
- Chapter 3 Economy, Ecology, Organology: On Technics and Desire
- Chapter 4 Nihilism and the Sublime: The Crisis of Perception
- Chapter 5 Aesthesis and Techne: New Technologies and Lyotard's Aesthetics
- Chapter 6 Immaterial Matter: Yves Klein and the Aesthetics of the Sensible
- Chapter 7 Inhuman Arts: From Cubism to New Media
- Conclusion The Judgement of the Inhuman
- Bibliography
- Index
