Celebricities : media culture and the phenomenology of gadget commodity life / Anthony Curtis Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Anthony Curtis, author.

Series:

Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP

Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Materialism--United States.

Materialism.

Mass media and culture--United States.

Mass media and culture.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.

Contents:

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Exordium; Introduction; PART I; 1 The phenomenology of television; 2 The life not ours to live; 3 The celebrity and the nobody; 4 Being(s); 5 The life of things; 6 Ideology and truth; 7 The truth of the commodity; 8 Value, publicity, politics; 9 Reproduction; 10 The gadget; 11 To the things themselves; PART II; 12 Methods; Concepts of criticism; Language is the . . . of being; Satanic laughter; Techniques of writing; Vita contemplativa; The raccoon trap; 13 Celebrity; Epic form; Celebrity and singularity

Innocence Of celebricity, or: toward a phenomenology of MadonnaThe 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, 17 years too late; 14 Television/Gadget; It's bicycle repairman . . .; Dialectica gizmotica; The Trojan horse; The personal computer

Terror-visionThe Joker; Gigi; Nip/Tuck; The Following; The Ring; House; Disjecta membra Dexteri; Boogie Nights; Man or Muppet; The sweatshops of Hollywood; Muppetation and mediation; Demectomy; Action figures; Liberal Arts; Glee; Bunheads; Breaking Bad/Elective Affinities; Epilogue: How I met my mother (French Theory, by François Cusset); Notes; Bibliography; Videography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-7082-3

OCLC:

945072694