Around the book [electronic resource] : systems and literacy / Henry Sussman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sussman, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Social systems.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Books--History.

Books.

Books and reading--Sociological aspects.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 319 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Offering a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book, this study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'prevailing operating system' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique and science.

Contents:

Introduction : around the book

Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel

Kafka's imaginary : a psychoanalytical footnote

Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium

Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction

Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity

Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human?

Atmospherics of mood

Thinking flat out : back to Bateson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4117-3

0-8232-3285-9

OCLC:

708566781