About this title: Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and sensation-in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In "Parables for the Virtual", Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models.Renewing and assessing William James' radical ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780822328827ISBN:0822328828
Description: New. 0822328828 Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (Hardcover-2002)---New Book! Buy now while supplies last! Limited availability! -----------"This is an extraordinary work of scholarship and thought, the most thorough-going critique and reformulation of the culture doctrine that I have read in years. Massumi's prose has a dazzling and sometimes cutting clarity and yet he bites into very big issues. People will be reading and talking about ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780822328827ISBN:0822328828
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