David Rodowick

Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy After the New Media

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Produktbeschreibung

Applies the concept of "the figural" to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-Francois Lyotard, this title defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down.

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Produktdetails

• Post-Contemporary Interventions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327226
• ISBN-10: 0822327228
• Artikelnr.: 21582072

Autorenporträt

D. N. Rodowick is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine (also published by Duke University Press), The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory and The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
One. Presenting the Figural
The Idea of the Figural
Lyotard’s Leap into the Void: The Aesthetic before the New Media
Paradoxes of the Visual, or Philosophy after the New Media
Two. Reading the Figural
Rehearsing the Figural
Foucault through Deleuze, or The Diagrammatics of Power
Reading the Figural
The End of Modernism
Three. The Figure and the Text
Film and the Scene of Writing
“With dreams displaced into a forest of script”
Hieroglyphics, Montage, Enunciation