{"product_id":"parables-for-the-virtual-9781478014676","title":"Parables for the Virtual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi''s pioneering \u003ci\u003eParables for the Virtual\u003c\/i\u003e has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James''s radical empiricism and Henri Bergson''s philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan''s acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, scien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eParables for the Virtual\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eParables\u003c\/i\u003e remains influential, fertile, and suggestive.” -- Steven Shaviro, author of * The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism *\u003cbr\u003e“Shifting focus from subjects to the situations and events that form them, \u003ci\u003eParables for the Virtual\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e an event: it alters the reader's perception, their sense of what \u003ci\u003emight yet be\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Nathan Snaza, author of * Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition  xi\u003cbr\u003e Keywords for Affect xxxiii\u003cbr\u003e Missed Conceptions  xliii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn't  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Autonomy of Affect  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Bleed: Where Body Meets Image  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Political Economy of Belonging and the Logic of Relation  73\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Evolutionary Alchemy of Reason: Stelarc  97\u003cbr\u003e 5. On the Superiority of the Analog  145\u003cbr\u003e 6. Chaos in the \"Total Field\" of Vision  157\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Brightness Confound  177\u003cbr\u003e 8. Strange Horizon: Buildings, Biograms, and the Body Topologic  193\u003cbr\u003e 9. Too-Blue: Color-Patch for an Expanded Empiricism  227\u003cbr\u003e Notes  279\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  333\u003cbr\u003e Index  343","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867286810967,"sku":"9781478014676","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014676.jpg?v=1722282602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/parables-for-the-virtual-9781478014676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}