{"product_id":"virilio-now-current-perspectives-in-virilio-studies-hardback-9780745648774","title":"Virilio Now; Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies (Hardback) 9780745648774","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVirilio Now\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCurrent Perspectives in Virilio Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Armitage (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745648774, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 July 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"John Armitage's \u003ci\u003eVirilio Now\u003c\/i\u003e brings together lively and provocative contemporary perspectives on Virilio's work. The editor's introduction and interview with Virilio provide an illuminating overview of this provocative and original thinker, while the articles are engaging and original, providing up-to-date takes on diverse and important themes engaged in Virilio's multifaceted works.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kellner, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"John Armitage's \u003ci\u003eVirilio Now\u003c\/i\u003e, a masterfully edited collection of essays based on one of the most provocative critics of our time, engages, complements and even contests Paul Virilio's multifaceted work on technology, art, architecture, urban and visual studies in compelling and far-reaching ways. This book will be a valuable and an enduring point of reference.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVerena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Paul Virilio is a complex and important thinker, difficult to categorize, and ranging creatively across the worlds of art, architecture, technology, and much more. John Armitage has succeeded in bringing together a group of contributors who do real justice to Virilio's work, with both critical enthusiasm and engaged and thoughtful critique.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Robins, Goldsmith's College, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince the publication in 1975 of Paul Virilio's \u003ci\u003eBunker Archeology\u003c\/i\u003e, the range of Virilio's critical works and their impact is now clear within a variety of subjects. Making astonishing interventions into art and architecture, geography, cultural studies, media, literature, aesthetics, and sociology, the momentous implications of which have yet to be entirely understood, Virilio is the cultural theorist for our troubled twenty-first century.  \u003cp\u003eResponding to this growing interdisciplinary interest, \u003ci\u003eVirilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies\u003c\/i\u003e comprises Sean Cubitt's critical overview of Virilio's oeuvre, an important newly translated text by Virilio interrogating the impact of contemporary art, and eight other major original essays by noted scholars on the wide scope of Virilio's writings, inclusive of Adam Sharr on Virilio and the architect Peter Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel, and Nigel Thrift's crucial assessment of Virilio's \u003ci\u003eCity of Panic\u003c\/i\u003e. Substantial coverage of Virilio's essential texts such as \u003ci\u003eThe Information Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e is presented alongside his hypermodern conjectures on television and speed, globalization, media, and representation. Navigating Virilio's 'accident of art', the 'aesthetics of disappearance', and widespread cultural devastation, additional essays bring together considerations of financial adversity, war, calamity, and the apocalypse. Dazzling yet perceptive, these texts on the 'post-nuclear imagination', terror, and dread are simultaneously creative and theoretical extrapolations from Virilio's 'scenic imagination' and companion essays to his most contemporary, highly original, and powerful books such as \u003ci\u003eThe Original Accident\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe University of Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e. Clearly introduced by the editor, \u003ci\u003eVirilio Now\u003c\/i\u003e is the preeminent single-volume on Virilio's work and world available today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Paul Virilio: A Critical Overview 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Armitage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Third War: Cities, Conflict and Contemporary Art: Interview with Paul Virilio 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Armitage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Burning Bruder Klaus: Towards an Architecture of Slipstream 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Sharr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Vector Politics and the Aesthetics of Disappearance 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSean Cubitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Virilio’s Media as Philosophy 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott McQuire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElin O’Hara Slavick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Panicsville: Paul Virilio and the Aesthetic of Disaster 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNigel Thrift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Three Theses on Virilio Now 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur Kroker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Accident of Finance 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Crosthwaite\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Virilio and Visual Culture: On the American Apocalyptic Sublime 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoy Garnett and John Armitage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Impact Studies 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Virilio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 239\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407319822616,"sku":"9780745648774","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745648774.jpg?v=1784161501","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/virilio-now-current-perspectives-in-virilio-studies-hardback-9780745648774","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}