In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant social upheavals, it is dizzying, excessive, and sometimes surreal. In this breathtaking work, Steven Shaviro investigates popular culture, new technologies, political change, and community disruption and concludes that science fiction and social reality have become virtually indistinguishable. Connected is made up of a series of mini-essays-on cyberpunk, hip-hop, film noir, Web surfing, greed, electronic surveillance, pervasive...
In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant s...
From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this quickly emerging speculative realism, which is already dramatically influencing how we interpret reality and our place in a universe in which humans are not the measure of all things.
The Universe of Things explores the common insistence of speculative realism on a...
From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has bee...
L anthropologie culturelle critique est une nouvelle discipline qui n a pas uniquement pour but de relever et repertorier les phenomenes culturels lies a un domaine anthropologique; elle s attache a les critiquer, c est-a-dire a les evaluer d un point de vue philosophique. Dans cette etude, qui a pour point d ancrage le roman Le sursis (1945) de Sartre, l auteur rend compte de la diversite des phenomenes qui touchent a une aspiration majeure de l humanite a partir de l epoque moderne: la recherche de l immediatete, de la simultaneite, de l ubiquite. L auteur y aborde des -univers...
L anthropologie culturelle critique est une nouvelle discipline qui n a pas uniquement pour but de relever et repertorier les phenomenes culturels lie...
Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before.
As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro examines the ways that music videos interact with and change older media like movies and gallery art; the use of technologies like compositing, motion control, morphing software, and other digital special effects in order to create a new organization of time...
Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we hav...
Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before.
As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro examines the ways that music videos interact with and change older media like movies and gallery art; the use of technologies like compositing, motion control, morphing software, and other digital special effects in order to create a new organization of time...
Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we hav...
