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Truth: Aesthetic Politics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cubitt, Sean, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biopolitics.
- Cybernetics.
- Digital media.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Essay Collection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Goldsmiths Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "The problem with Neo-Nazis is not that they don't trust the media but that they trust them too much. White supremacists are absolutely convinced by their supremacy. They distrust technologies and climate change as much as the global poor because, as white Europeans, they believe they are exempt from exploitation. This book argues that the only truths possible in the 21st century are mobile, inventive practices involving everything European models of communication exclude: technologies, nature, and leftover humanity. Tracing histories of their separation, Truth analyzes the struggle between the new dominance of information systems and the sensory worlds it excludes, not least the ancestral wisdom that the West has imprisoned in its technologies. The emergent cybernetics of the 1940s has become the dominant ideology of the 21st century. Truth opposes its division of the world between subjects and objects, signals and noise, emphasizing that there can be no return to some primal Eden of unfettered exchange. Instead, these divisions, which have fundamentally reorganized the commodity form that they inherited, are the historical conditions we must confront. Drawing on a wide range of aesthetic practices, from literature, film, art, music, workplace media, scientific instruments, and animal displays, Truth seeks out ways to create a new commons and a new politics grounded in aesthetic properties of creativity, senses and perception that can no longer be restricted to humans alone."-- provided by distributor.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preamble
- 1 Realism
- 1.1 Cosmic Zoom
- From Hardy to Spielberg
- The Powers of Ten
- NGC 4889
- El Presente no Existe
- Software Zooms and Zoom Software
- Microscopy at the Movies
- 1.2 Blackfriars Bridge, 1896
- Ancestors
- Hierarchies
- Victorian Anthropocene
- Ontology and Oblivion
- 1.3 The Remaining Tasks of Realism: Rue Cases-Nègres
- Scientific and Embodied Realism
- The Raw Materials of History Are Not Raw
- Realism and Communication
- Autonomy and Allonomy
- Histories of Reality
- 'The Look of a Room'
- Seven Tasks
- A Digression on Mermaids
- 2 Data Visualisation
- Space and time
- In C
- Temporealities, Temporamentalities and Chronoclasms
- River Monitoring
- Flash Crash: Instrument
- Seismography: Imagination
- Pandemic: From Disaster to Crisis
- A Digression on Angels
- 3 Glitch
- Solar Observatory
- A Disturbance of Memory
- Infernal Affairs: Non-identity and Integral Glitch
- The Departed: Gangster Economics
- Authenticity and Illusion
- Forgetting
- A Digression on Cats
- 4 Abstraction
- The Condition of Music
- De Stijl: Cosmos and Commodity
- QR and Unhappiness
- Mortality and Distribution
- 5 Coda
- Consideration
- Manifesto
- Notes
- References
- Links
- Index.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781913380632
- 1913380637
- OCLC:
- 1396065226
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