Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and sensation-in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In "Parables for the Virtual" Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing and assessing William James' radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. If such concepts are as fundamental as signs and significations, he argues, then a new set of theoretical issues appear, and with them potential new paths for the wedding of scientific and cultural theory. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with new distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, "Parables for the Virtual" 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 multi-faceted argument. "Parables for the Virtual" will interest students and scholars of continental and Anglo-American philosophy, cultural studies, cognitive science, electronic art, digital culture, and chaos theory, as well as those concerned with the 'science wars' and the relation between the humanities and the sciences in general.
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[posted here as course assignment http://affectivepolitics.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/affects-emotion-and-political-power-in-massumis-parables-for-the-virtual/] By depicting the consequences of Bergson’s revolutionary concept of time, Massumi brings us into...
評分重讀《虛擬的寓言》,更加清晰,集伯格森與德勒茲思想於一體,還有阿倫特《過去和未來之間》。世界處於相互聯係和作用之中,在場與不在場,過去和現在之共時同時的將來,無知覺的身體,感-動。感覺是潛能在感知身體內在場的模式。斯賓諾莎:泛神論,宇宙宗教主義情懷,上帝即自...
評分[posted here as course assignment http://affectivepolitics.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/affects-emotion-and-political-power-in-massumis-parables-for-the-virtual/] By depicting the consequences of Bergson’s revolutionary concept of time, Massumi brings us into...
評分初讀此書時正在寫博士論文,因為要從affect切入,但是國內此類研究與翻譯很少,這本書算是affective turn的一本力著,囫圇吞棗的讀過一遍。最近趕一篇文章,決定二刷。(吐槽一下,南大新傳學院某會議有一個分論題:媒介與情感政治,首先,德勒茲對於媒介論是非常排斥甚至貶義...
評分重讀《虛擬的寓言》,更加清晰,集伯格森與德勒茲思想於一體,還有阿倫特《過去和未來之間》。世界處於相互聯係和作用之中,在場與不在場,過去和現在之共時同時的將來,無知覺的身體,感-動。感覺是潛能在感知身體內在場的模式。斯賓諾莎:泛神論,宇宙宗教主義情懷,上帝即自...
圖書標籤: affect body 法國哲學 德勒茲 電影理論 哲學 duration 理論
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評分第二遍纔稍懂,那個中文版鬼纔能懂。
評分我很喜歡affect這個discourse,但在論文裏闡述它真的令人頭大啊,我的大腦真的分析不瞭這麼多“情動”
評分第二遍纔稍懂,那個中文版鬼纔能懂。
評分作為研究affect theory的必讀書目,對他這種毀人大腦的寫法隻有無語,弄懂瞭的部分真心佩服,不懂的部分也不打算去費事瞭。
Parables for the Virtual 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載