'Avital Ronell installs the telephone in the space of thinking Heidegger reserves for poetry and art, producing a series of reflections on philosophy, psychoanalysis and biography that may come to represent one of the most decisive readings of the technological since Heidegger' - "Substance" "With "The Telephone Book", the deconstruction of ...
"["Dictations"] will change not only the way we read Goethe, but the way we read." - Rainer Nagele, author of "Reading after Freud". Avital Ronell, author of "Crack Wars" and "The Telephone Book", defies the undefiable. In "Dictations" she looks at Goethe, the dictator. A figure whose every word is treated with reverence by Germanists, Goethe is ...
Avital Ronell asks why 'there is no culture without drug culture'. She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictions that are culturally accepted - an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself. It is ...
A philosophical examination of stupidity and its uncanny ability to crop up in literature, in the everyday, and as the evil twin of respectable intelligence.
'Brilliant' - "Esquire". 'Trauma TV' is ...the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written' - "Artforum". 'Over the past decade, Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era' - Jonathan Culler. '[Avital Ronell] jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical ...
Kathy Acker one of the most innovative, startling and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvre -- over a dozen novels and novellas -- has inspired a generation of writers and artists. Lust for Life is the definitive collection of ...
Beginning with Nietzsche's discovery of the 'experimental disposition', Ronell explores testing's ascension to truth in modern practice. To know something, and to know that it is true, has never been a simple matter of recognition and assent. Instead, increasing numbers of tests of ever increasing complexity have been established to determine and ...
For twenty years, Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly investigated the impact of technology on thinking and writing, with groundbreaking work on Heidegger, dependency and drug rhetoric, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and the obsession with ...
Humankind has imagined and depicted fantastical creatures since the formation of the first societies. Beasts such as the Chimera, the Golem, the Minotaur and Galatea could be said to be culturally symptomatic. Today, in the twenty-first century, we witness the emergence of a new class of beings: organisms that are first imagined and then--through ...
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Peter Weibel, Susanne Craemer, Robert Fleck, Hubert Damisch, Paul Virilio, Avital Ronell, Otto E. Rossler, Slavoj Zizek, And...
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Galerie Tanja Grunert, Köln
Date Published: 1992
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. 186 pp. Text is in German and English. Very minor shelf wear, otherwise fine. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. read more
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 2007
Description: Fine (Book Condition) NEW. UNREAD. In fine condition. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. ] read more
Description: Julia Scher Always There withtext by Brian Wallis, Andrew Hultkrans, Avital Ronell, Bill Horrigan, Andrew Ross, Lynne Tillman and Giovanni Intra. 128 pages, paper with stiff wrap. Color and black and white phorographs. Like new condition. ISBN 0-971193-7-6. read more
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Richard Eckersley, Teal Triggs, Steven Heller, Tony O'Hanlon, David H. Gilbert, Willis Goth Regier, Avital Ronell, Michael...
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Description: REMERING RICHARD Richard Eckersely 1941-2006 as remembered by his friends and colleagues. Eckersely was a teacher and book designer originally in the UK (he had graduated from the London College of Printing) and most recently at the University of Nebraska Press. Pieces by Teal Triggs, Steven Heller, Tony O'Hanlon, David H. Gilbert, Willis Goth Regier, Avital Ronell, Michael Jon Jensen, Steve Cox, Ladette Randolph, Barbara Williams Ellertson and numerous others. 114 pages, paper with stiff cover ... read more
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