Publications tagged with "dialectic":
On Becoming-Music: Between Boredom and Ecstasy
2010Paperback, 148 pagesISBN 098270674X"On Becoming-Music: Between Boredom and Ecstasy is a critical approach to the possibility of music as an art form in the age of media. It opens our ears and our minds to the dialectics of repetition and variation, ecstasy and entertainment in music." - Michael Schmidt"In our world of conventional music pieties to whic...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesGrey Ecology
2010Paperback, 218 pagesISBN 0982706731Here as Virilio states, "all one can do is guess." But Virilio's position is not one of pure guessery. His extrapolationist position against his delirium state, has the architecture of a 23rd century scientist: three parts - fractal geometry, two parts - theory of general relativity, one part - Philip K. Dick. One must step back and stare down t...Publication Program: University of DisasterThe Infinite City: Politics of Speed
2009Paperback, 258 pagesISBN 0982530919The author employs a philosophical approach in order to conceptualize the space and time in urban realms of the first decades of the 21st century. The so-called 'hi-tech society' has reached its saturation according to Paul Virilio, William Mitchell, Jean Baudrillard, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Marc Augé. Space and time are interchangeably main conc...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesKeywords: jean-luc nancy, politics, city, communication technologies, cyber, cyberethnography, dialecticTrauma, Hysteria, Philosophy
2009Paperback, 146 pagesISBN 0981997244Trauma, Hysteria, Philosophy includes two essays which investigate philosophically the psychoanalytic categories of trauma and hysteria; each essay seeks a new way to understand such varied concepts as the dialectical theater and the linguistic turn. Media Identity is an attempt to reinvestigate the concept of hysteria as a philosophical not...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesTalking Cheddo
2009Paperback, 346 pagesISBN 0981946232“What a rewarding read! This unique blending of philosophy, poetry and personal experience, combined with an impressive scholarship, has enlightened me beyond my expectations. I especially liked the constructive attitude which turns the ugly past into something which contains future – a dialectics of hope. Like many educated people I had a...Publication Program: InterventionsKeywords: dialectic
