Parables for the virtual : movement, affect, sensation / Brian Massumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massumi, Brian, author.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movement (Philosophy).

Senses and sensation.

Affect (Psychology).

Physical Description:

358 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and sensation-in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. The new preface to the anniversary edition situates the book in relation to developments since its first publication, and summarizes its main concepts and how they have evolved"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : concrete is as concrete doesn't

The autonomy of affect

The bleed : where body meets image

The political economy of belonging and the logic of relation

The evolutionary alchemy of reason : Stelarc

On the superiority of the analog

Chaos in the ''total field'' of vision

The brightness confound

Strange horizon : buildings, biograms, and the body topologic

Too-blue : color-patch for an expanded empiricism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Massumi, Brian. Parables for the virtual.

ISBN:

9781478013747

1478013745

9781478014676

1478014679

OCLC:

1235905664