EVENT STATES: DISCOURSE, TIME, MEDIALITY

EVENT STATES: DISCOURSE, TIME, MEDIALITY by Louis Armand

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ISBN 80-7308-168-3 (paperback). 320pp. Published: September 2007.

Topics: Critical Theory / Philosophy of Technology / Media

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Part 2 of Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lit_tech.html

Following from an earlier study of literate technologies, the present volume seeks to examine a number of questions that inevitably come to surround any discussion of signification and dynamic systems; questions which concern the relationship between what is variously meant by the terms event and state, and which tend to coalesce around a number of problems to do with relativity and the discursive character of time or temporalisation, mediality, representation and the techno-logisation of presence. Such questions ultimately travel far afield, between ontology and classical epistemology, cybernetics and quantum physics, aesthetics and political science.

Essays in this volume treat the work of G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey and Henri Poincare.

Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other.

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