The aesthetics of disappearance / Paul Virilio ; introduction by Jonathan Crary ; translated by Philip Beitchman.

Main entry:

Virilio, Paul, author.

Title & Author:

The aesthetics of disappearance / Paul Virilio ; introduction by Jonathan Crary ; translated by Philip Beitchman.

Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext, [2009]
©2009

Description:

127 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Notes:
"Originally published in 1980 as Esthétique de la disparition by Éditions Balland, Paris."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127).

Summary:

Focusing on the logistics of perception, this title introduces the author's understanding of 'picnolepsy' - the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781584350743 (pbk.)
1584350741 (pbk.)

Subject:

Culture Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Perception.
Subconsciousness.
Inconscient.
Geschwindigkeit
Kultur
Estetik.

Added entries:

Crary, Jonathan, writer of introduction.
Beitchman, Philip, 1939- translator.
Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279462
Call No.: BIB 215494
Status: Available

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