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.”
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Texts and Contexts |
| Release date: |
June 1998 |
| Firstpublished: |
June 1998 |
| Authors: |
Avital Ronell
|
| Dimensions: |
114 x 232 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
370 |
| Edition: |
New Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-8949-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8032-8949-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780803289499 |
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