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The Aesthetics of Disappearance

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Aesthetics of Disappearance

By Paul Virilio

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Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and still consummate -- theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of "picnolepsy" -- the epileptic s...Show more

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9781584350743

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Semiotext (E)

Published year

2009

Language

English

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The Aesthetics of Disappearance

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Paperback

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