Full Description
This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.
Contents
Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture, John Armitage and Ryan Bishop; 2. The Illusions of Zero Time, Paul Virilio; 3. Towards a New Ecology of Time, Joy Garnett; 4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception, John Beck; 5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge', Caren Kaplan; 6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War, John Phillips; 7. History in the 'Mis-en-Abyme of the Body': Ranbir Kaleka and the 'Art of Auschwitz' after Virilio, Tania Roy; 8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul's 'Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost', Ryan Bishop; 9. The Event, Jordan Crandall; 10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art, John Armitage; 11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation, Benjamin H. Bratton; 12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide, Gair Dunlop; 13. The Production of the Present, Ian James; Notes on Contributors; Index.
