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Book SynopsisSuspending 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.
