Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author)
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Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author)

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author)

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Brian Massumi (Author)  

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Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multifaceted argument. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts, "Keywords for Affect" and "Missed Conceptions about Affect," in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.
Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and until recently, was Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Couplets, Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.
  • Contributor: Brian Massumi
  • Imprint: Duke University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781478014676
  • Number of Pages: 408
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 567
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Release Date: 2021-10-20
  • Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and until recently, was Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Couplets, Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.

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