Finitude's Score

Essays for the End of the Millennium

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? "[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment," her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that "this time we have gone too far": "One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This possibility has to be considered if we, as a species, as a history, are going to get anywhere at all."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1998-06-01
Mått133 x 249 x 29 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTexts and Contexts
Antal sidor370
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9780803289499

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"Brilliant."-Esquire Esquire "'Trauma TV' is ... the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written."-Artforum Artforum "Over the past decade, Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era."-Jonathan Culler -- Jonathan Culler "[Avital Ronell] jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical jargon of the academy with the adroitness of a speed-fiend switchboard operator... [She is] the reigning queen of termino-millenarianism."-Poetics Today Poetics Today "This collection is stunning. Ronell has achieved a work of thinking at the highest level."-John P. Leavey Jr. -- John P. Leavey Jr.