The Aesthetics of Disappearance

Paul Virilio, Jonathan Crary, Phil Beitchman

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MIT Press
10 April 2009

Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

Virilio introduces his understanding of ""picnolepsy""-the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed.

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a ""juncture"" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception-a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the ""vision machine."" If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural-and still consummate-theorist of ""dromology"" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of ""picnolepsy""-the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence- the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it. Speed and Politics defined the society of speed; The Aesthetics of Disappearance defines what it feels like to live in the society of speed. ""I always write with images,"" Virilio has claimed, and this statement is nowhere better illustrated than with The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Moving from the movie theater to the freeway, and from Craig Breedlove's attainment of terrifying speed in a rocket-power car to the immobility of Howard Hughes in his dark room atop the Desert Inn, Virilio himself jump cuts from such disparate reference points as Fred Astaire, Franz Liszt, and Adolf Loos to Dostoyevsky, Paul Morand, and Aldous Huxley. In its extension of the ""aesthetics of disappearance"" to war, film, and politics, this book paved the way to Virilio's follow-up- the celebrated study, War and Cinema.

This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Crary, one of the leading theorists of modern visual culture. Foreign Agents seriesDistributed for Semiotext(e)

By: Paul Virilio
Introduction by: Jonathan Crary
Translated by: Phil Beitchman
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: new edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781584350743
ISBN 10: 1584350741
Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 April 2009
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e). Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. A founding editor of Zone Books, he is the author of Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press, 1990) and coeditor of Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992). He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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