TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stapleton,Erin K.
TI  - The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media: A Philosophy of Expenditure after Georges Bataille 
SN  - 9789048551644
U1  - 194 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Digital and Social Media
KW  - Film, Media, and Communication
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Destruction, Media, Culture, Queer Theory, Posthumanism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface: The Intoxication of Destruction --; Introduction: Destruction and Immortality --; Destruction I: Energy --; Destruction II: World Destruction III: Body --; Destruction III: Body --; Destruction IV: Matter --; Conclusion: The Destroyers --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with, destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in the body and in sexuality, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilisation of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048551644?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048551644
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048551644/original
ER  -