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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462353903321

Autore

Ronell Avital

Titolo

The ÙˆberReader [[electronic resource] ] : selected works of Avital Ronell / / edited by Diane Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-58367-4

9786613896124

0-252-09229-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DavisD. Diane <1963-> (Debra Diane)

Disciplina

809/.04

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - United States

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""xiii Acknowledgments""; ""xv Introduction""; ""Photo album follows page xxxvi""; ""PART I The Call of Technology""; ""5 1. Delay Call Forwarding""; ""38 2. Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm""; ""63 3. Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle""; ""89 4. State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security""; ""PART II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts""; ""101 5. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested""

""128 6. Toward a Narcoanalysis""""141 7. Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas""; ""145 8. Preface to Dictations""; ""PART III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body""; ""161 9. A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship""; ""168 10. The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot""; ""188 11. the Philosophical Code Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim""; ""PART IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups""; ""205 12. The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's ""Andenken""""; ""227 13. On Friendship;  Or, Kathy Goes to Hell""; ""240 14. Loving Your Enemy""



""PART V The Fading Empire of Cognition""""259 15. Slow Learner""; ""293 16. The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test)""; ""307 17. Koan Practice of Taking Down the Test""; ""324 18. ""Is It Happening?""""; ""Index""; ""back cover""