This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it.
Erin K. Stapleton is currently a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.
Acknowledgements Preface: The Intoxication of Destruction Introduction: Destruction and Immortality Destruction I: Energy Part 1: The General Economy Part 2: Sovereignty and Heterogeneity Destruction II: World Part 1: Exploding Monuments (The Destruction Of Architecture) Part 2: Extinction (The Destruction of Everyone Else) Destruction III: Body Part 1: Spectacular Expenditure (from Sacrifice to Execution) Part 2: Eroticism (The Destruction of Sexuality) Destruction IV: Matter Part 1: Accelerating Destruction (The Material of Media) Part 2: The Material of the Digital (Computational Immortality) Conclusion: The Destroyers Bibliography Index
