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Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition
Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art
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Ashley Woodward
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2016
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Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard’s incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard’s ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as ‘posthumanism’. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard’s specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.
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Contents
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Series Editors’ Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction: Beyond the Postmodern? The Inhuman Condition
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1. The End of Time: Evolution, Extinction, and the Fate of Meaning
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2. Information and Event: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Information
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3. Economy, Ecology, Organology: On Technics and Desire
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4. Nihilism and the Sublime: The Crisis of Perception
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5. Aesthēsis and Technē: New Technologies and Lyotard’s Aesthetics
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6. Immaterial Matter: Yves Klein and the Aesthetics of the Sensible
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7. Inhuman Arts: From Cubism to New Media
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Conclusion: The Judgement of the Inhuman
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Bibliography
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Index
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