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Parables for the Virtual
Movement, Affect, Sensation
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Brian Massumi
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English
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2021
About this book
This twentieth anniversary edition of Brian Massumi's pioneering and highly influential Parables for the Virtual includes a significant new preface that situates the book in relation to developments since its first publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts.
Author / Editor information
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.
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“Parables for the Virtual has become an indispensable reference point for many of the most vigorous intellectual developments of the past decade. It points the way to a style of thought that might well lead to renewed and invigorated conceptualizations of the most varied domains. As one of the most important theory texts of the twenty-first century, Parables remains influential, fertile, and suggestive.”
-- Steven Shaviro, author of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism
“Shifting focus from subjects to the situations and events that form them, Parables for the Virtual has given those who dream futures beyond coloniality, patriarchy, capitalist extraction, and state biopower not only a different vocabulary but a range of new perceptual habits to attune to the violences that shape our world. Spurring experimental ways of living into new futures, this book is not only one of our most important theories of the event, it is an event: it alters the reader's perception, their sense of what might yet be.”
-- Nathan Snaza, author of Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
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Keywords for Affect
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Missed Conceptions
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Introduction: Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn’t
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1 The Autonomy of Affect
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2 The Bleed: Where Body Meets Image
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3 The Political Economy of Belonging and the Logic of Relation
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4 The Evolutionary Alchemy of Reason: Stelarc
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5 On the Superiority of the Analog
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6 Chaos in the “Total Field” of Vision
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7 The Brightness Confound
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8 Strange Horizon: Buildings, Biograms, and the Body Topologic
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9 Too-Blue: Color-Patch for an Expanded Empiricism
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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August 30, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781478021971
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