Parables for the Virtual

Movement, Affect, Sensation

Brian Massumi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

408 Seiten

2021 | Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1467-6 (ISBN)

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Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi 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 multifaceted argument.

This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts, “Keywords for Affect” and “Missed Conceptions about Affect,” in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.

Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and until recently, was Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Couplets, Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.

Preface to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition xi
Keywords for Affect xxxiii
Missed Conceptions xliii
Introduction: Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn't 1
1. The Autonomy of Affect 25
2. The Bleed: Where Body Meets Image 49
3. The Political Economy of Belonging and the Logic of Relation 73
4. The Evolutionary Alchemy of Reason: Stelarc 97
5. On the Superiority of the Analog 145
6. Chaos in the "Total Field" of Vision 157
7. The Brightness Confound 177
8. Strange Horizon: Buildings, Biograms, and the Body Topologic 193
9. Too-Blue: Color-Patch for an Expanded Empiricism 227
Notes 279
Works Cited 333
Index 343

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Post-Contemporary Interventions
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4780-1467-9 / 1478014679
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1467-6 / 9781478014676
Zustand	Neuware