Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition
Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:31st Aug '17
Should be back in stock very soon
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