[ecrea] Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life

       What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the 
hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to 
the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when 
these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that 
is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely 
untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining 
sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental 
theoretical interventions, Anthony Curtis Adler rethinks Marxist 
materialism and the Heideggerian project in terms of the singular 
experiences of late capitalism. In doing so, he reveals how the 
disarticulation of life via the commodity fetish demands at once a new 
notion of phenomenological method and an ontology oriented toward the 
radical contingency of being itself as transcendental ground.

*Anthony Curtis Adler* is Associate Professor of German and Comparative 
Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International College in 
South Korea.

Fordham University Press

Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP

January 2016 256pp  9780823270804 PB £22.99now only £18.39* when you 
quote CSL716CMCL when you order

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/celebricities


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