Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition
Author | : Ashley Woodward |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-01-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748697250 |
ISBN-13 | : 074869725X |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.