03910nam 2200697 450 991079842260332120230120065519.00-8232-7082-310.1515/9780823270828(CKB)3710000000747389(EBL)4706110(DE-B1597)555431(OCoLC)945072694(DE-B1597)9780823270828(MiAaPQ)EBC4804000(MiAaPQ)EBC4706110(MiAaPQ)EBC5046380(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 StatesAlthusser.Celebrity.Commodity.Gadget.Heidegger.Marx.Ontology.Phenomenology.Television.MaterialismMass media and culturePopular culture306.01Adler Anthony Curtis802597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798422603321Celebricities3730184UNINA