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Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
Akira Mizuta Lippit
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Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
A fascinating exploration of the symbolic place animals hold within our culture.
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity—essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema.
Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound animal and ... Read moreThe animal has, accordingly, haunted thought as a form of spectral and undead being. Lippit demonstrates how, in the late nineteenth century, this phantasmic concept of animal being reached the proportions of an epistemological crisis, engendering the disciplines and media of psychoanalysis, modern literature, and cinema, among others. Against the prohibitive logic of Western philosophy, these fields opened a space for rethinking animality. Technology, usually thought of in opposition to nature, came to serve as the repository for an unmournable animality-a kind of vast wildlife museum.A highly original work that charts new territory in current debates over language and mortality, subjectivity and technology, Electric Animal brings to light fundamental questions about the status of representation—of the animal and of ourselves—in the age of biomechanical reproduction. Show LessProduct Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816634866
SKU
V9780816634866
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About Akira Mizuta Lippit
Akira Mizuta Lippit is associate professor of film studies and critical theory in the Department of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
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