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Symbolic Misery- Volume 1

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Symbolic Misery- Volume 1

By Bernard Stiegler

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In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Stiegler argues that our epoch is characterized by the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technology, where aesthetics has become both theatre and weapon in an economic war. This has resulted in a `symbolic misery' where conditioning substitutes for experience. In today's control societies, aesthetic we...Show more

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9780745652641

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

Symbolic Misery- Volume 1

Format

Hardcover

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