The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media

A Philosophy of Expenditure after Georges Bataille

Erin K. Stapleton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2022
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-453-1 (ISBN)

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This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in execution and in eroticism, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilization of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures.

Erin K. Stapleton is currently a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.

Acknowledgements

Preface: The Intoxication of Destruction

Introduction: Destruction and Immortality

Destruction I: Energy
Part 1: The General Economy
Part 2: Sovereignty and Heterogeneity

Destruction II: World
Part 1: Exploding Monuments (The Destruction Of Architecture)
Part 2: Extinction (The Destruction of Everyone Else)

Destruction III: Body
Part 1: Spectacular Expenditure (from Sacrifice to Execution)
Part 2: Eroticism (The Destruction of Sexuality)

Destruction IV: Matter
Part 1: Accelerating Destruction (The Material of Media)
Part 2: The Material of the Digital (Computational Immortality)

Conclusion: The Destroyers

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	94-6372-453-2 / 9463724532
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-453-1 / 9789463724531
Zustand	Neuware