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The ÜberReader : selected works of Avital Ronell / edited by Diane Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ronell, Avital.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- United States.
- History.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Über reader
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- With courage and humor, Avital Ronell takes thinking and writing into wild and dangerous places. The UberReader introduces her groundbreaking work on drug rhetoric, technology's fatal attractions, and the odd prestige of stupidity. The UberReader includes previously uncollected essays, selections from her books, and some of her most powerful public talks. An extensive introduction by Diane Davis surveys and situates Ronell's hard-hitting work, and recalls some of the most important critical responses it has provoked.
- Contents:
- Part I The Call of Technology
- 1 Delay Call Forwarding 5
- 2 Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm 38
- 3 TraumaTV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle 63
- 4 State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security 89
- Part II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts
- 5 On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested 101
- 6 Toward a Narcoanalysis 128
- 7 Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas 141
- Part III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body
- 9 A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship 161
- 10 The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot 168
- 11 The Philosophical Code: Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim 188
- Part IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups
- 12 The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's "Andenken" 205
- 13 On Friendship; Or, Kathy Goes to Hell 227
- 14 Loving Your Enemy 240
- Part V The Fading Empire of Cognition
- 15 Slow Learner 259
- 16 The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test) 293
- 17 Koan Practice or Taking Down the Test 307
- 18 "Is It Happening?" 324.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252030666
- 0252030664
- 9780252073113
- 0252073118
- OCLC:
- 72868047
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