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Parables for the Virtual - Movement, Affect, Sensation (Paperback, Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author)
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Parables for the Virtual - Movement, Affect, Sensation (Paperback, Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
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Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering
Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for
interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the
body and media such as television, film, and the internet as
cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of
sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical
empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the
filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and
Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions
of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional
opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis
and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related
theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse
as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald
Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of
cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a
crystalline and multifaceted argument. This twentieth anniversary
edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book
in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the
evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts,
"Keywords for Affect" and "Missed Conceptions about Affect," in
which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that
emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.
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