Virilio and Visual Culture

John Armitage; Ryan Bishop

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Virilio and Visual Culture

John Armitage and Ryan Bishop

In the series Critical Connections

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748654468

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About this book

The first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more

This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture.

Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.

Key features

A wide-ranging treatment of Virilio's key theoretical concepts and themes from across his work on visual culture so far
Surveys Virilio's aesthetics and socio-cultural ideas and how they function within his highly politicised approach to visual culture
Examines Virilio's thinking from his initial works on war and cinema to his latest theoretical conjectures on art, perception and seeing

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture John Armitage and Ryan Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Illusions of Zero Time Paul Virilio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. Towards a New Ecology of Time Joy Garnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception John Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of ‘Genuine Knowledge’ Caren Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War John W. P. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
7. History in the ‘Mise en Abyme of the Body’: Ranbir Kaleka and the ‘Art of Auschwitz’ after Virilio Tania Roy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul’s Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost Ryan Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
9. The Event Jordan Crandall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art John Armitage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation Benjamin H. Bratton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide Gair Dunlop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
13. The Production of the Present Ian James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 31 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: January 16, 2013
ISBN: 9780748654468