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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bernard Stiegler (Pompidou Centre, France)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.200kg ISBN: 9780745652658ISBN 10: 0745652654 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 25 July 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsForeword Of Symbolic Misery, the Control of Affects, and the Shame that Follows As Though We Were Lacking or How to Find Weapons in Alain Resnais’s Same Old Song Allegory of the Anthill The Loss of Individuation in the Hyper-industrial Age Tiresias and the War of Time On a Film by Bertrand Bonello AfterwordReviewsIn this decisive contribution to a critical understanding ofcontemporary life, Stiegler demonstrates how mass exclusion fromcultural production constitutes a form of generalizedimpoverishment, threatening to reduce our existence to meresubsistence. Typically though, he also suggests how we might buildalternatives to this 'symbolic misery'. This work forms a vitalpart of Stiegler's essential project. Martin Crowley, Queen s College, University ofCambridge Expanding on Deleuze s idea of 'control societies', BernardStiegler provocatively diagnoses the 'misery' of contemporarysociety as a collective exclusion from the creation of symbols. Awar is being waged, he argues: capitalistic marketing is theinstrument of choice, the battleground is aestheticsand the fightis for the control of affect. Recommended for anyone interested inthe contemporary cultural condition. N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University In this decisive contribution to a critical understanding of contemporary life, Stiegler demonstrates how mass exclusion from cultural production constitutes a form of generalized impoverishment, threatening to reduce our existence to mere subsistence. Typically though, he also suggests how we might build alternatives to this 'symbolic misery'. This work forms a vital part of Stiegler's essential project. Martin Crowley, Queen's College, University of Cambridge Expanding on Deleuze's idea of 'control societies', Bernard Stiegler provocatively diagnoses the 'misery' of contemporary society as a collective exclusion from the creation of symbols. A war is being waged, he argues: capitalistic marketing is the instrument of choice, the battleground is aestheticsand the fight is for the control of affect. Recommended for anyone interested in the contemporary cultural condition. N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University Author InformationBernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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