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Finitude´s Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium
Avital Ronell
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Description for Finitude´s Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 370 pages, 14 photographs, table. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 114 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too ... Read more
Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Series
Texts and Contexts
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803289499
SKU
V9780803289499
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About Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell’s books include The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) and Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), both published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is chair of and professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and a professor of comparative literature at New York University.
Reviews for Finitude´s Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium
"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 ... Read more
Jonathan Culler "[Avital Ronell] jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical jargon of the ... Read more