Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including: Marxism, trauma theory, ecocriticism, psychoa…
On the basis of unpublished lecture courses and un-translated analyses of visual art, Tanke reveals the uniquely genealogical character of Foucault's writings on visual culture, allowing for new readings of his major texts in the context of contemporary Continental philosophy, a…
Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity tells the story of how art shed the tasks with which it had traditionally been charged in order to become modern. Joseph J. Tanke offers the first complete examination of Michel Foucault's reflections on visual art, tracing …
Hartmut Bohme's study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption,…
by Barry, Peter
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"Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now."--Back cover
The new edition of 'Beginning Theory' features new chapters which take account of recent developments in literary theory.
"Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now."--Back cover.
Introduction. Nothing is Not the End -- Ungrounding. Earth Apathy : A General Ecology of Sound ; Catch and Capture: 'Field' and 'Recording' in Field Recording ; The Empty Channel : Noise Music and the Pathos of Information ; Eon Cores : Noise Prospecting in A Personal Sonic Geol…
