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Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition

Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

Ashley Woodward author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:31st Aug '17

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Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.

ISBN: 9781474425803

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224 pages