[ecrea] Virilio and the media

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: 
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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

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Northumbria University

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

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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