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Forerunners: Ideas First
Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide
All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
Concurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo—a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Concurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo—a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
100 pages, Paperback
Published October 29, 2019
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September 28, 2020
Dur à comprendre quand on n'a pas les références de l'auteur: beaucoup de propos pas du tout vulgarisés en peu de pages, c'est très bien quand tu comprends les références, mais on est complètement perdu quand ce n'est pas le cas (et je l'étais souvent).
Les phrases ressemblent souvent à ça: "Insofar as we should now ironize postmodern indeterminacy, the impulse follows from features Kittler spotlights here, the Pynchonian sens that verification is preprogrammed remotely by fabrications and functionaries. Against the new realist uncriticality, Pynchon might help us investigate a durable literary-historical interface between epistemological confidence and ontological confusion that may have been baker into media modernity all along." (p.67)
Comme on s'en doute, ça parle de post-modernisme et de science-fiction. À lire si c'est votre jam.
Les phrases ressemblent souvent à ça: "Insofar as we should now ironize postmodern indeterminacy, the impulse follows from features Kittler spotlights here, the Pynchonian sens that verification is preprogrammed remotely by fabrications and functionaries. Against the new realist uncriticality, Pynchon might help us investigate a durable literary-historical interface between epistemological confidence and ontological confusion that may have been baker into media modernity all along." (p.67)
Comme on s'en doute, ça parle de post-modernisme et de science-fiction. À lire si c'est votre jam.
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