LEADER 03561nam 2200553 450 001 9910465312903321 005 20210209223253.0 010 $a0-8232-7082-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000747389 035 $a(EBL)4706110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5046380 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4706110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4804000 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000747389 100 $a20180131h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCelebricities $emedia culture and the phenomenology of gadget commodity life /$fAnthony Curtis Adler 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 0 $aIdiom: Inventing Writing Theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-7080-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 singularity 327 $aInnocence 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 computer 327 $aTerror-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 Franc?ois 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; Acknowledgments 330 $aA phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment. 410 0$aIdiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP 606 $aMaterialism$zUnited States 606 $aMass media and culture$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMaterialism 615 0$aMass media and culture 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a306.01 700 $aAdler$b Anthony Curtis$0802597 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465312903321 996 $aCelebricities$92468045 997 $aUNINA