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[ecrea] Virilio and the media

Wed May 09 17:39:41 GMT 2012




Dear friends and colleagues

I am pleased to announce the publication this week, in Polity's Theory and Media series, of my new book, *VIRILIO AND THE MEDIA*.

A Description of the book, the Back Cover Reviews, and the Table of Contents are listed below.


The book is on the Polity website here: http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745642284

And on the Amazon UK website here (Look Inside! etc): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Virilio-Media-TM-Theory/dp/0745642284/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336484117&sr=1-1 <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Virilio-Media-TM-Theory/dp/0745642284/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336484117&sr=1-1>

Best wishes.

John

Dr John Armitage

Associate Dean, Professor of Media

Head of Department of Media

Co-editor, */Cultural Politics/*

School of Arts & Social Sciences

Room SQ318d, Squires Building

Northumbria University

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 8ST

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My latest book, */Virilio and the Media/*, is now available from Polity:

http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745642284


Description

In books such as /The Aesthetics of Disappearance/, /War and Cinema/, /The Lost Dimension/, and /The Vision Machine/, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture. Virilio's examinations of the connections between perception, logistics, the city, and new media technologies comprise some of the most powerful texts within his hypermodern philosophy.


/Virilio and the Media/ presents an introduction to Virilio's important media related ideas, from polar inertia and the accident to the landscape of events, cities of panic, and the instrumental image loop of television. John Armitage positions Virilio's essential media texts in their theoretical contexts whilst outlining their substantial influence on recent cultural thinking. Consequently, Armitage renders Virilio's media texts accessible, priming his readers to create individual critical evaluations of Virilio's writings. The book closes with an annotated and user-friendly Guide to Further Reading and a non-technical Glossary of Virilio's significant concepts.

Virilio's texts on the media are vital for everyone concerned with contemporary media culture, and /Virilio and the Media/ offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the ever expanding range of his critical media and cultural works.

*Reviews*

'If Paul Virilio is the essential guide to understanding the digital future that is the 21st century, then John Armitage's brilliant account of Virilio and the Media explores the essence of Virilio's intellectual vision: its aesthetics, new media critique, political theory, cinematic analysis, and creative technological disturbance. Here, the writing of Paul Virilio becomes a vivid, haunting reminder of that which has been lost and gained with the disappearance of culture, society and politics into the language of new media.'

Arthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, University of Victoria, Canada

'Paul Virilio is a canary in the mine of contemporaneity. For him, new communications media have remade the world as speed, accident, ubiquitous militarisation and the loss of the dimension of the real. Armitage is uniquely positioned to articulate the richness and urgency of Virilio's media critique.'

Sean Cubitt, University of Southampton

'John Armitage proves himself the leading English-language interpreter of Virilio's unique body of work. Focusing on Virilio's pioneering understanding of the transformative impact of media technologies, Armitage establishes a cogent and clear-sighted trajectory, and makes a powerful argument for both the strategic and ethical value of Virilio's thought.'

Scott McQuire, University of Melbourne

*Table of Contents*

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Aesthetics of Disappearance

2 Cinema, War, and the Logistics of Perception

3 New Media: Vision, Inertia, and the Mobile Phone

4 City of Panic: The Instrumental Image Loop of Television and Media Events

5 The Work of the Critic of the Art of Technology: The Museum of Accidents

Conclusion

Guide to Further Reading

Glossary

References

Index


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