The UberReader : selected works of Avital Ronell / / edited by Diane Davis

• Autore: Ronell Avital
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.04
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - United States; Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: DavisD. Diane <1963-> (Debra Diane)
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: "Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era... Zeugmatically yoking the slang of pop culture with philosophical analysis, forcing the confrontation of high literature and technology or drug culture, Avital Ronell produces sentences that startle, irritate, illuminate. At once hilarious and refractory, her books are like no others."--Jonathan Culler, Diacritics For twenty years Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly investigated the impact of technology on thinking and writing, with groundbreaking work on Heidegger, dependency and drug rhetoric, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and the obsession with testing. Admired for her insights and breadth of field, she has attracted a wide readership by writing with guts, candor, and wit.Coyly alluding to Nietzsche's "gay science, " The ÜberReader presents a solid introduction to Avital Ronell's later oeuvre. It includes at least one selection from each of her books, two classic selections from a collection of her early essays (Finitude's Score), previously uncollected interviews and essays, and some of her most powerful published and unpublished talks. An introduction by Diane Davis surveys Ronell's career and the critical response to it thus far.With its combination of brevity and power, this Ronell "primer" will be immensely useful to scholars, students, and teachers throughout the humanities, but particularly to graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary theory.
• Altri titoli varianti: Uber reader
• Titolo autorizzato: The UberReader
• ISBN: 9786613896124; 9781283583671; 1283583674; 9780252092299; 0252092295
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963301003321
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