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Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition : Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art / Ashley Woodward.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Technicities : TECHPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748697243
  • 9780748697250
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 23
LOC classification:
  • B2430.L964 W66 2016eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanismAshley 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.Jean-François Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide-ranging and highly original contributions to thought were overshadowed by his brief, unfortunate association with 'postmodernism.' 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'.
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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

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Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanismAshley 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.Jean-François Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide-ranging and highly original contributions to thought were overshadowed by his brief, unfortunate association with 'postmodernism.' 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'.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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