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The Aesthetics of Disappearance

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An edition of Esthétique de la disparition (1980)

The Aesthetics of Disappearance

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Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy" — the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed.

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural — and still consummate — theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of "picnolepsy" -- the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it. Speed and Politics defined the society of speed; The Aesthetics of Disappearance defines what it feels like to live in the society of speed. "I always write with images," Virilio has claimed, and this statement is nowhere better illustrated than with The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Moving from the movie theater to the freeway, and from Craig Breedlove's attainment of terrifying speed in a rocket-power car to the immobility of Howard Hughes in his dark room atop the Desert Inn, Virilio himself jump cuts from such disparate reference points as Fred Astaire, Franz Liszt, and Adolf Loos to Dostoyevsky, Paul Morand, and Aldous Huxley. In its extension of the "aesthetics of disappearance" to war, film, and politics, this book paved the way to Virilio's follow-up: the celebrated study, War and Cinema.

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127

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Cover of: The Aesthetics of Disappearance
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
April 10, 2009, Semiotext(e)
Paperback in English
Cover of: Esthétique de la disparition
Esthétique de la disparition
October 1, 1994, LGF
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Cover of: The Aesthetics of Disappearance
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
December 1991, Semiotext(e)
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Aesthetics of Disappearance
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
1991, Semiotext(e)
Paperback in English - 1st English ed.
Cover of: The Aesthetics of Disappearance
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
December 1991, Semiotext(e)
Paperback in English - 1st English ed.
Cover of: Esthétique de la disparition
Esthétique de la disparition
1989, Éditions Galilée
in French
Cover of: Esthétique de la disparition
Esthétique de la disparition
1980, Balland
in French
Cover of: Esthétique de la disparition
Esthétique de la disparition
Publish date unknown, Librairie Générale Française
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 120).

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New York, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
111/.85
Library of Congress
BH39 .V55913 1991

Contributors

Translator
Philip Beitchman

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
127 p.
Number of pages
127

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Open Library
OL1524594M
ISBN 10
093675642X
LCCN
93214043
OCLC/WorldCat
24486965
Library Thing
280566
Goodreads
2758363

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