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Celebricities : media culture and the phenomenology of gadget commodity life / Anthony Curtis Adler.
LIBRA B825 .A3155 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler, Anthony Curtis, author.
- Series:
- Idiom (Fordham University Press)
- Idiom, inventing writing theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Marx, Karl.
- Materialism--United States.
- Materialism.
- United States.
- Mass media and culture--United States.
- Mass media and culture.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental theoretical interventions, Anthony Curtis Adler rethinks Marxist materialism and the Heideggerian project in terms of the singular experiences of late capitalism. In doing so, he reveals how the disarticulation of life via the commodity fetish demands at once a new notion of phenomenological method and an ontology oriented toward the radical contingency of being itself as transcendental ground. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I
- 1 The phenomenology of television 13
- 2 The life not ours to live 21
- 3 The celebrity and the nobody 40
- 4 Being(s) 51
- 5 The life of things 59
- 6 Ideology and truth 64
- 7 The truth of the commodity 71
- 8 Value, publicity, politics 76
- 9 Reproduction 100
- 10 The gadget 121
- 11 To the things themselves 132
- 12 Methods 137
- Concepts of criticism
- Language is the... of being
- Satanic laughter
- Techniques of writing
- Vita contemplative; The raccoon trap
- 13 Celebrity 141
- Epic form
- Celebrity and singularity
- Innocence; Of celebricity, or: toward a phenomenology of Madonna
- The strange celebrity
- The Uncandy; Candy Candy
- What percentage of the American population are celebrities!'
- Specters of Spector
- Excrement and enterprise
- The dissociating pleasure of things; Abstract pleasures
- Experiences
- The theory of suffering
- Advertising
- The next top model
- Television and celebrity
- Politics and humor
- The visionary
- Things
- Listening to Radiohead for the first time, F years too late.
- 14 Television/Gadget 176
- It's bicycle repairman...
- Dialectica gizmotica
- The Trojan horse
- The personal computer
- Terror-vision
- The joker
- Gigl
- Nip/Tuck: The Following
- The Ring
- House
- Disjecta membra Dexteri
- Boogie Nights
- Man or Muppet
- The sweatshops of Bollywood
- Muppetation and mediation
- Demectomy
- Action figures
- Liberal Arts
- Glee: Bunheads
- Breaking Bad/Elective Affinities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Adler, Anthony Curtis, author. Celebricities
- ISBN:
- 9780823270798
- 0823270793
- 9780823270804
- 0823270807
- OCLC:
- 933273953
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