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Using continental philosophy and critical theory, Homay King returns to the original meaning of the virtual—which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming—to offer a new way to understand how contemporary digital art transcends distinctions between digital and analog, abstract and tangible, disembodiment and lived experience.

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"[A] bold and far-reaching attempt to theorize the potential of the virtual.... [T]his ambitious book reveals the power of cultural production to open up new ways of thinking and new directions out of the morass of the present." -- Alison Landsberg * Critical Inquiry *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Keys to Turing 18

2. Christian Marclay's Two Clocks 47

3. Matter, Time, and the Digital: Agnès Varda's Videos 71

4. Beyond Repetition: Victor Burgin's Loops 100

5. The Powers of the Virtual 125

6. Another World Is Virtual 161

Notes 179

Bibliography 191

Index 199

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 27/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9780822360025, 978-0822360025
      ISBN10: 0822360020
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Using continental philosophy and critical theory, Homay King returns to the original meaning of the virtual—which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming—to offer a new way to understand how contemporary digital art transcends distinctions between digital and analog, abstract and tangible, disembodiment and lived experience.

      Trade Review
      "[A] bold and far-reaching attempt to theorize the potential of the virtual.... [T]his ambitious book reveals the power of cultural production to open up new ways of thinking and new directions out of the morass of the present." -- Alison Landsberg * Critical Inquiry *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments vii

      Introduction 1

      1. Keys to Turing 18

      2. Christian Marclay's Two Clocks 47

      3. Matter, Time, and the Digital: Agnès Varda's Videos 71

      4. Beyond Repetition: Victor Burgin's Loops 100

      5. The Powers of the Virtual 125

      6. Another World Is Virtual 161

      Notes 179

      Bibliography 191

      Index 199

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