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 ...
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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."
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 370 p. Contains: Illustrations. Texts and Contexts, 8. Audience: General/trade. 368pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed. Endnotes & index. Dj in Mylar.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Octavo. Book is very good with very light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light creasing to the spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original silver lettered mauve cloth (top edge dust stained-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. xiii + 368, illus with b&w photos in text (previous owner's very light pencil annotations in margins).
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