Publications tagged with "jean-luc nancy":
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 DisasterTransience: A poiesis, of dis/appearance
2010Paperback, 208 pagesISBN 0982530986"This text shines like the sea: always in motion, in waves, short or long, with a thousand gleams of the sun, and a thousand small appearances of foam; and one is far from any coast."
-Jean-Luc Nancy
Still, duration seems to be considered a "first-rate-value on earth," as deemed by Nietzsche more than 120 years ago, whereas t...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesKeywords: jean-luc nancyThe 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, dialectic
