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Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology
Patricia Ticineto Clough
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Paperback. BIC Classification: JM; T. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 305.
Explores the connection between new theories, new technologies, and new ways of thinking.
In this book, Patricia Ticineto Clough reenergizes critical theory by viewing poststructuralist thought through the lens of "teletechnology," using television as a recurring case study to illuminate the changing relationships between subjectivity, technology, and mass media.
Autoaffection links diverse forms of cultural criticism-feminist theory, queer theory, film theory, postcolonial theory, Marxist cultural studies and literary criticism, the cultural studies of science and the criticism of ethnographic writing—to the transformation and expansion of teletechnology in the late twentieth century. These theoretical approaches, Clough suggests, have become the vehicles of ... Read moreIn individual chapters, Clough juxtaposes the likes of Derridean deconstruction, Deleuzian philosophy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. She works through the writings of Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour, Nancy Fraser, Elizabeth Grosz—to name only a few—placing all in dialogue with a teletechnological framework. Clough shows how these cultural criticisms have raised questions about the foundation of thought, allowing us to reenvision the relationship of nature and technology, the human and the machine, the virtual and the real, the living and the inert. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816628896
SKU
V9780816628896
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About Patricia Ticineto Clough
Patricia Ticineto Clough is professor of sociology, women’s studies, and intercultural studies at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her books include Feminist Thought and The End(s) of Ethnography.
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