Rodowick David Rodowick

Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of "e;the figural"e; to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-Francois Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down. This opposition, which has been the philosophical foundation of aesthetics since the eighteenth century, has been explicitly challenged by the new electronic, televisual, and digital media. Rodowick-one of the foremost film theorists writing today-contemplates this challenge, describing and critiquing the new regime of signs and new ways of thinking that such media have inaugurated.To fully comprehend the emergence of the figural requires a genealogical critique of the aesthetic, Rodowick claims. Seeking allies in this effort to deconstruct the opposition of word and image and to create new concepts for comprehending the figural, he journeys through a range of philosophical writings: Thierry Kuntzel and Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier on film theory; Jacques Derrida on the deconstruction of the aesthetic; Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin on the historical image as a utopian force in photography and film; and Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault on the emergence of the figural as both a semiotic regime and a new stratagem of power coincident with the appearance of digital phenomena and of societies of control.Scholars of philosophy, film theory, cultural criticism, new media, and art history will be interested in the original and sophisticated insights found in this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822380764
• Artikelnr.: 54926271

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