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Hi all
Like everyone else on this list, I have a new book out.
Table of Contents and details below.
Best wishes.
John
Dr John Armitage
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VIRILIO NOW
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Paul Virilio: A Critical Overview
John Armitage
2 The Third War: Cities, Conflict, and Contemporary Art: Interview with Paul Virilio
John Armitage
3 Burning Bruder Klaus: Towards an Architecture of Slipstream Adam Sharr
4 Vector Politics and the Aesthetics of Disappearance
Sean Cubitt
5 Virilio′s Media as Philosophy
Scott McQuire
6 Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss
Elin O′Hara Slavick
7 Panicsville: Paul Virilio and the Esthetic of Disaster
Nigel Thrift
8 Three Theses on Virilio Now
Arthur Kroker
9 The Accident of Finance
Paul Crosthwaite
10 Virilio and Visual Culture: On the American Apocalyptic Sublime
Joy Garnett and John Armitage
11 Impact Studies
Paul Virilio
From the Back Cover
Since the publication in 1975 of Paul Virilio′s Bunker Archeology, the range of Virilio′s critical works and their impact is now clear within a variety of subjects. Making astonishing interventions into art and architecture, geography, cultural studies, media, literature, aesthetics, and sociology, the momentous implications of which have yet to be entirely understood, Virilio is the cultural theorist for our troubled twenty–first century.
Responding to this growing interdisciplinary interest, Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies comprises Sean Cubitt′s critical overview of Virilio′s aesthetics of disappearance, an important newly translated text by Virilio interrogating the impact of contemporary art, and eight other major original essays by noted scholars on the wide scope of Virilio′s writings, inclusive of Adam Sharr on Virilio and the architect Peter Zumthor′s Bruder Klaus chapel, and Nigel Thrift′s crucial assessment of Virilio′s City of Panic. Substantial coverage of Virilio′s essential texts such as The Information Bomb is presented alongside his hypermodern conjectures on television and speed, globalization, media, and representation. Navigating Virilio′s ′accident of art′, the ′aesthetics of disappearance′, and widespread cultural devastation, additional essays bring together considerations of financial adversity, war, calamity, and the apocalypse. Dazzling yet perceptive, these texts on the ′post–nuclear imagination′, terror, and dread are simultaneously creative and theoretical extrapolations from Virilio′s ′scenic imagination′ and companion essays to his most contemporary, highly original, and powerful books such as The Original Accident and The University of Disaster. Clearly introduced by the editor, Virilio Now is the preeminent single–volume on Virilio′s work and world available today.
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