Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 302 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857712098
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1441676317
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1845115678
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1845115686
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9781845115678
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9780857712097
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9780755696611
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9781441676313
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9781845115685
Series Statement:
New encounters. Arts, cultures, concepts
Content:
If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the groundedness and referentiality of the concept of the index. In this transdisciplinary book, major artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theo
Content:
Traumas of code / N. Katherine Hayles -- Of mice and mien : or perhaps of mouses and mien? (anyway with apologies to John Steinbeck) / Antony Bryant -- A virtual indication / Samuel Weber -- The future birth of the affective fact : the political ontology of threat / Brian Massumi -- For a comparative film studies / Paul Willemen -- Night passage : the depth of time / Trinh T. Minh-ha interviewed by Alison Rowley -- Tension, time and tenderness : indexical traces of touch in textiles / Claire Pajaczkowska -- Look, no wires! Some notes around the idea of a sign (1, 2, nothing) / Adrian Rifkin -- Airport / Martha Rosler -- Dossier : Mary Kelly Circa 1968. On fidelity : art, politics, passion and event / Mary Kelly ; Legacies of resistance / Juli Carson -- Mary Kelly's Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi : virtual trauma and indexical witness in the age of mediatic spectacle / Griselda Pollock -- Nomad-words / Anna Johnson.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845115678
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Digital and other virtualities London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN 9781845115678
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755696611
