03561nam 2200553 450 991046531290332120210209223253.00-8232-7082-3(CKB)3710000000747389(EBL)4706110(MiAaPQ)EBC5046380(MiAaPQ)EBC4706110(MiAaPQ)EBC4804000(EXLCZ)99371000000074738920180131h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCelebricities media culture and the phenomenology of gadget commodity life /Anthony Curtis AdlerNew York :Fordham University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (264 p.)Idiom: Inventing Writing TheoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8232-7080-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Exordium; Introduction; PART I; 1 The phenomenology of television; 2 The life not ours to live; 3 The celebrity and the nobody; 4 Being(s); 5 The life of things; 6 Ideology and truth; 7 The truth of the commodity; 8 Value, publicity, politics; 9 Reproduction; 10 The gadget; 11 To the things themselves; PART II; 12 Methods; Concepts of criticism; Language is the . . . of being; Satanic laughter; Techniques of writing; Vita contemplativa; The raccoon trap; 13 Celebrity; Epic form; Celebrity and singularityInnocence Of celebricity, or: toward a phenomenology of MadonnaThe strange celebrity; The Uncandy; Candy Candy; What percentage of the American population are celebrities?; Specters of Spector; Excrement and enterprise; The dissociating pleasure of things; Abstract pleasures; Experiences; The theory of suffering; Advertising; The next top model; Television and celebrity; Politics and humor; The visionary; Things; Listening to Radiohead for the first time, 17 years too late; 14 Television/Gadget; It's bicycle repairman . . .; Dialectica gizmotica; The Trojan horse; The personal computerTerror-visionThe Joker; Gigi; Nip/Tuck; The Following; The Ring; House; Disjecta membra Dexteri; Boogie Nights; Man or Muppet; The sweatshops of Hollywood; Muppetation and mediation; Demectomy; Action figures; Liberal Arts; Glee; Bunheads; Breaking Bad/Elective Affinities; Epilogue: How I met my mother (French Theory, by François Cusset); Notes; Bibliography; Videography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; AcknowledgmentsA phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUPMaterialismUnited StatesMass media and cultureUnited StatesPopular cultureUnited StatesElectronic books.MaterialismMass media and culturePopular culture306.01Adler Anthony Curtis802597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465312903321Celebricities2468045UNINA