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100	1		_aMassumi, Brian
245	1	0	_aParables for the virtual : _bmovement, affect, sensation _cby Brian Massumi
260			_aLondon : _bDuke University Press, _c©2002
300			_al, 358 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aThis book Includes bibliographical references and an index.
505	0		_tThe autonomy of affect _t-- The bleed: where body meets image _t -- The political economy of belonging and the logic of relation _t-- The evolutionary alchemy of reason: Stelarc _t -- On the superiority of the analog _t -- Chaos in the ''total field'' of vision _t-- The brightness confound _t-- Strange horizon: buildings, biograms, and the body topologic _t-- Too-blue: color-patch for an expanded empiricism.
520			_a"Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and sensation-in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. The new preface to the anniversary edition situates the book in relation to developments since its first publication, and summarizes its main concepts and how they have evolved"--
650		0	_aMovement (Philosophy)
650		0	_aSenses and sensation.
650		0	_aAffect (Psychology)
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