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Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, this book examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor.

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"Brilliant."-Esquire Esquire "'Trauma TV' is ... the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written."-Artforum Artforum "Over the past decade, Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era."-Jonathan Culler -- Jonathan Culler "[Avital Ronell] jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical jargon of the academy with the adroitness of a speed-fiend switchboard operator... [She is] the reigning queen of termino-millenarianism."-Poetics Today Poetics Today "This collection is stunning. Ronell has achieved a work of thinking at the highest level."-John P. Leavey Jr. -- John P. Leavey Jr.

Finitudes Score Essays for the End of the

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1998
      ISBN13: 9780803289499, 978-0803289499
      ISBN10: 0803289499

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, this book examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor.

      Trade Review
      "Brilliant."-Esquire Esquire "'Trauma TV' is ... the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written."-Artforum Artforum "Over the past decade, Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era."-Jonathan Culler -- Jonathan Culler "[Avital Ronell] jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical jargon of the academy with the adroitness of a speed-fiend switchboard operator... [She is] the reigning queen of termino-millenarianism."-Poetics Today Poetics Today "This collection is stunning. Ronell has achieved a work of thinking at the highest level."-John P. Leavey Jr. -- John P. Leavey Jr.

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