Finitude's score : essays for the end of the millennium

Author(s)

    • Ronell, Avital

Bibliographic Information

Finitude's score : essays for the end of the millennium

Avital Ronell

(Texts and contexts, v. 8)

University of Nebraska Press, c1994

  • alk. paper

Available at  / 1 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-357) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? "[W]riting to the community of those who have no community--to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment," her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that "this time we have gone too far" "One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This possibility has to be considered if we, as a species, as a history, are going to get anywhere at all."

by "Nielsen BookData"

Related Books: 1-1 of 1

Details

Page Top