Rodowick / Fish / Jameson Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8076-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Theorizes the concept of the figural as a way to get beyond the long held aesthetic distinction between plastic and linguistic arts, a distinction that will not work for film and new media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodowick, David

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

One. Presenting the Figural

The Idea of the Figural

Lyotard’s Leap into the Void: The Aesthetic before the New Media

Paradoxes of the Visual, or Philosophy after the New Media

Two. Reading the Figural

Rehearsing the Figural

Foucault through Deleuze, or The Diagrammatics of Power

Reading the Figural

The End of Modernism

Three. The Figure and the Text

Film and the Scene of Writing

“With dreams displaced into a forest of script”

Hieroglyphics, Montage, Enunciation

Über Autor(innen)

D. N. Rodowick is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine (also published by Duke University Press), The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory and The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory.