Just Gaming
by Lyotard, Jean François, Massumi, Brian, Weber, Samuel, Thébaud, Jean-Loup
fromTheory and history of literature
This essay collection further familiarizes the English-speaking world with the work of late German media scholar Friedrich Kittler. It features well-established and emergent scholars who present investigations that traverse all of Kittler's major phases, from early studies of Ge…
Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related…
There is no world of thought that is not a world of language, Walter Benjamin remarked, and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language. In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's th…
""There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing on a little-discussed …