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The Imago Stage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Georges, Karoline.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (115 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2020.
- Toronto : Coach House Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the tension, depression, and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in Paris to retire in her twenties, she buys a studio in Montreal and retreats from the world and its perceived threats, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But when her mother develops cancer and nears the end of her life, she is forced to leave her cocoon - surrounded by her posse of augmented reality superheroes - and interact with the world and her parents without the mask of her perfect, virtual self.Georges offers up an alienated childhood with shifting pop culture obsessions, a woman's awakening to the role of the image in culture, and her eventual isolation in her apartment and the world online. It is a catalogue of the anxieties of an age, from nuclear war to terrorism, climate change to biological warfare. Set in the past and not-too-distant future of Montreal, The Imago Stage is an ominous tale of oppression, suppression, and disembodiment.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Reality
- Stupor
- Space-Time
- Immortality
- Substitution
- Synthesis
- Disappearance
- The Eternal Return
- The Image
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781770566248
- 1770566244
- OCLC:
- 1131818714
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