| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 the body and in sexuality, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilisation of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Erin K. Stapleton is currently a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvXfrWft9BDycyXThXrv3 |
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Aesthetics.
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Mass media -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Media studies. |
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PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction. |
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Aesthetics |
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Mass media -- Philosophy |
| Indexed Term |
Destruction, Media, Culture, Queer Theory, Posthumanism. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stapleton, Erin. Intoxication of destruction in theory, culture and media. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022 9463724532 (OCoLC)1292975169 |
| ISBN |
9789048551644 (electronic book) |
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9048551641 (electronic book) |
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9789463724531 (hardcover) |
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9463724532 (hardcover) |
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