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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791402103321

Autore

Sussman Henry

Titolo

Around the book [[electronic resource] ] : systems and literacy / / Henry Sussman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8232-4117-3

0-8232-3285-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 319 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

002.09

Soggetti

Criticism

Social systems

Literature - Philosophy

Books - History

Books and reading - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : around the book -- Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel -- Kafka's imaginary : a psychoanalytical footnote -- Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium -- Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction -- Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity -- Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human? -- Atmospherics of mood -- Thinking flat out : back to Bateson.

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book, this study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'prevailing operating system' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique and science.