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A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch (SB-The French List)
Paul Virilio
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Description for A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch (SB-The French List)
Hardcover. French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. This title gathers conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a 20th century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 186 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror. The dialogues in "A Winter's Journey" - structured loosely around the dates 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980 - chart Virilio's intimate intellectual biography, from his childhood lived against the unstable backdrop of a heavily bombed, wartime Nantes to maturity in a crisis space that is neither ... Read more
French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror. The dialogues in "A Winter's Journey" - structured loosely around the dates 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980 - chart Virilio's intimate intellectual biography, from his childhood lived against the unstable backdrop of a heavily bombed, wartime Nantes to maturity in a crisis space that is neither ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books
Condition
New
Series
The French List
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497859
SKU
V9781906497859
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About Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio is the author of many books, including The Original Accident, A Landscape of Events, The Vision Machine, and Bunker Archaeology. Marianne Brausch trained as an architect at the Institut superieur d'architecture in Saint-Luc, Brussels. She currently works as a journalist and translator. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.
Reviews for A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch (SB-The French List)
"Virilio is an impressive commentator on the conditioning power of the mass media....He flits from image to image like a poet and usually builds to a profound climax." -Guardian "If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, this must be Paul Virilio."-Lev Manovich, author of The Language of ... Read more