Couplets : travels in speculative pragmatism / Brian Massumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massumi, Brian, author.

Series:

Thought in the act

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience.

Pragmatism.

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Perception (Philosophy).

Affect (Psychology).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Couplets, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to Parables for the Virtual, Couplets addresses the key concepts of Parables from different angles and contextualizes it, allowing its stakes to be more fully felt. Rather than organizing the essays chronologically or by topic, Massumi pairs them into couplets to encourage readers to make connections across conventional subject matter categories, encounter disjunctions, and to link different phases in the evolution of his work. In his analyses of topics ranging from art, affect, and architecture to media theory, political theory, and the philosophy of experience, Massumi charts a field on which a family of conceptual problems play out in ways that bear on the potentials for acting and perceiving the world. As an essential guide to Massumi's oeuvre, Couplets is both a primer for his new readers and a supplemental resource for those already engaged with his thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Couplet 1. 2019: Extreme realism : in sixteen series

Realer than real : the simulacrum according to Deleuze and Guattari

Couplet 2. 2000: On the right to the noncommunication of cultural difference

Event horizon

Couplet 3. 2017: Becoming animal in the literary field

The virtual, double capture, and the urban-architecture manifold

Couplet 4. 2009: Simondon's "Technical mentality" revisited

The supernormal animal

Couplet 5. 1997: Sensing the virtual, building the insensible

Not determinately nothing : building experience

Couplet 6. 2014: The crannies of the present : on the subject of decision

Dim, massive, and important : atmosphere in process

Couplet 7. 2005: Going kinetic : what is decision in a post-deliberative world?

Barely there : the power of the image at the limit of life

Couplet 8. 1995: Requiem for our prospective dead : a participatory critique of capitalist power

The political is not personal : affect, power, violence

Couplet 9. 2001: Tell me where your pain is : pointing to the body without an image

The art of the relational body : from mirror-touch to the virtual body

Couplet 10. 2000: Parable of the cave (blind version)

Panoscopia

Couplet 11. 2003: Urban appointment : a possible rendezvous with the city

Purple phosphene

Couplet 12. 2007: On critique

How do you make yourself a proposition? For a Whiteheadian laboratory (with Erin Manning)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-490) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Massumi, Brian. Couplets.

ISBN:

9781478013730

1478013737

9781478014669

1478014660

OCLC:

1204259452