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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458011503321

Autore

Massumi Brian

Titolo

Semblance and event [[electronic resource] ] : activist philosophy and the occurrent arts / / Brian Massumi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-30271-3

9786613302717

0-262-29819-8

Descrizione fisica

xii, 220 p. : ill

Collana

Technologies of lived abstraction

Disciplina

144/.3

Soggetti

Experience

Events (Philosophy)

Time in art

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts -- The ether and your anger toward a speculative pragmatism -- The thinking-feeling of what happens putting the radical back in empiricism -- The diagram as technique of existence ovum of the universe segmented -- Arts of experience, politics of expression In four movements. First movement. To dance a storm -- Second movement. Life unlimited -- Third movement. The paradox of content -- Fourth movement. Composing the political.

Sommario/riassunto

An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."