Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author,
filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social
philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of
Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines
operate so differently. Dark Matter argues that what makes their
contributions to the Frankfurt School so remarkable is how they
think together in spite of these differences. Kluge and Negt's
"gravitational thinking" balances not only the abstractions of
theory with the concreteness of the aesthetic, but also their
allegiances to Frankfurt School mentors with their fascination for
other German, French, and Anglo-American thinkers distinctly
outside the Frankfurt tradition. At the core of all their
adventures in gravitational thinking is a profound sense that the
catastrophic conditions of modern life are not humankind's
unalterable fate. In opposition to modernity's disastrous state of
affairs, Kluge and Negt regard the huge mass of dark matter
throughout the universe as the lodestar for thinking together with
others, for dark matter is that absolute guarantee that happier
alternatives to our calamitous world are possible. As illustrated
throughout Langston's study, dark matter's promise-its critical
orientation out of catastrophic modernity-finds its expression,
above all, in Kluge's multimedia aesthetic.
General
Imprint: |
Verso Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2020 |
Authors: |
Richard Langston
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78873-516-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-78873-516-1 |
Barcode: |
9781788735162 |
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