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Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
Anthony Curtis Adler
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Description for Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
Hardback. A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment. Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APT; HPCF3; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Idiom Inventing Writing Theory
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823270798
SKU
V9780823270798
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About Anthony Curtis Adler
Anthony Curtis Adler is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International College in South Korea.
Reviews for Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
In Celebricities, Anthony Curtis Adler gives us Heidegger watching TV, Marx playing with his cell phone, and Althusser contemplating celebrity. Thinking the popular with the philosophical gives us new and dynamic understandings of the commodity form, ontology, and ideology as well as aphorisms for some of the most pressing political questions of our age. -Christopher Breu, Illinois State University ... Read more