Videophilosophy (eBook)

The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism

Maurizio Lazzarato (Autor)

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2019
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54016-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass media. This book discloses the conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato's thought as a whole for a time when his writings have become increasingly influential.

HetrickJay:

Jay Hetrick is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah.Maurizio Lazzarato is a philosopher and sociologist. In the 1970s, he was involved with the Autonomia Operaia movement in Italy and was a founding member of the French journal Multitudes. His books in English include Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity (2014) and Governing by Debt (2015).
Jay Hetrick is assistant professor of art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah.

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The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive writings on debt. In Videophilosophy, he reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass media. First written in French and published in Italian and later revised but never published in full, this book discloses the conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato's thought as a whole for a time when his writings have become increasingly influential.Drawing on Bergson, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari, and the film theory and practice of Dziga Vertov, Lazzarato constructs a new philosophy of media that ties political economy to the politics of aesthetics. Through his concept of "e;machines that crystallize time,"e; he argues that the proliferation of digital technologies over the past half-century marks the transition to a new mode of capitalist production characterized by unprecedented forms of subjection. This new era of the commodification of the self, Lazzarato declares, demands novel types of political action that challenge the commercialization and exploitation of time. This crucial text by an essential contemporary thinker offers vital new perspectives on aesthetics, politics, and media and critical theory.

Inhalt

Lazzarato’s Political Onto- aesthetics, by Jay HetrickIntroduction1. The War Machine of the Kino-Eye and the Kinoki Against the Spectacle2. Bergson and Machines That Crystallize Time3. Video, Flows, and Real Time4. Bergson and Synthetic Images5. Nietzsche and Technologies of Simulation6. The Economy of Affective Forces7. The Concept of Collective PerceptionAfterword: Videophilosophy Now—an Interview with Maurizio LazzaratoNotesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Reihe/Serie: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Übersetzer: Jay Hetrick
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54016-7 / 0231540167
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54016-2 / 9780231540162