Title & Author:

Virilio and visual culture / edited by John Armitage and Ryan Bishop.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Critical connections

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetics, vision and speed : an introduction to Virilio and visual culture / John Armitage and Ryan Bishop -- The illusions of zero time / Paul Virilio -- Towards a new ecology of time / Joy Garnett -- Strangers to the stars : abstraction, aeriality, aspect perception / John Beck -- Desert wars : Virilio and the limits of 'genuine knowledge' / Caren Kaplan -- Light weapons/darkroom shadows : photography, cinema, war / John W.P. Phillips -- History in the 'Mise en abyme of the body' : Ranbir Kaleka and the 'art of Auschwitz' after Virilio / Tania Roy -- 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 -- The event / Jordan Crandall -- The face of the figureless : aesthetics, sacred humanism and the accident of art / John Armitage -- What we do is secrete : on Virilio, planetarity and data visualisation / Benjamin H. Bratton -- Relics of acceleration : a field guide / Gair Dunlop -- The production of the present / Ian James.

Summary:

This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. 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 rea.

ISBN:

9780748654451 (hbk.)
0748654453 (hbk.)
0748654445 (pbk.)
9780748654444 (pbk.)
9780748654468
0748654461
9780748654482
0748654488
9780748654475 (Amazon ebook)
9781299105775
1299105777

Subject:

Virilio, Paul Criticism and interpretation.
Virilio, Paul
Visual communication in art.
Apocalypse in art.
Communication and the arts.
Communication and culture.
Arts and society.
End of the world in art.
Communication visuelle dans l'art.
Fin du monde dans l'art.
Communication et arts.
Communication et culture.
Arts et société.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Armitage, John, 1956-
Bishop, Ryan, 1959-
Critical connections (Edinburgh University Press)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289077
Call No.: BIB 231309
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available