Lyotard and the inhuman condition : reflections on nihilism, information, and art / Ashley Woodward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Ashley, author.

Series:

Technicities.

Technicities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998--Criticism and interpretation.

Lyotard, Jean-François.

Nihilism (Philosophy).

Information theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Beyond the Postmodern? The Inhuman Condition

1. The End of Time: Evolution, Extinction, and the Fate of Meaning

2. Information and Event: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Information

3. Economy, Ecology, Organology: On Technics and Desire

4. Nihilism and the Sublime: The Crisis of Perception

5. Aesthēsis and Technē: New Technologies and Lyotard’s Aesthetics

6. Immaterial Matter: Yves Klein and the Aesthetics of the Sensible

7. Inhuman Arts: From Cubism to New Media

Conclusion: The Judgement of the Inhuman

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-2580-1

1-4744-1866-X

0-7486-9725-X