Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews
Jacques Derrida
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Hardback. In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. Translator(s): Bajorek, Jennifer. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JHM; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. What does it mean to speak of the present in a situation of "live" recording? How can we respond, responsibly, to a question when we know that the so-called "natural" conditions of expression, discussion, reflection, and deliberation have been breached?
In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. What does it mean to speak of the present in a situation of "live" recording? How can we respond, responsibly, to a question when we know that the so-called "natural" conditions of expression, discussion, reflection, and deliberation have been breached?
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In Echographies of Television, Derrida and Stiegler open up questions that are of key social and political importance. Their book will be of great interest to all those already familiar with Derrida's work, as well as to students and scholars of philosophy, literature, sociology and media studies.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745620367
SKU
V9780745620367
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About Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Bernard Stiegler is Director of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris.
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Jacques Derrida has been awarded the prestigious Theodor W. Adorno-Preis, 2001