An edition of Esthétique de la disparition (1980)

Esthétique de la disparition

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An edition of Esthétique de la disparition (1980)

Esthétique de la disparition

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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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Balland
Language
French
Pages
137

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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
Mass Market Paperback
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
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
in French

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Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
[Paris]
Series
Le Commerce des idées

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
844/.914
Library of Congress
PQ2682.I586 E8

The Physical Object

Pagination
137 p. ;
Number of pages
137

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4169118M
ISBN 10
2715802862
LCCN
80151758
OCLC/WorldCat
7945153
Goodreads
3883164

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