Title & Author:

Speculative aesthetics / edited by Robin Mackay, Luke Pendrell, James Trafford.

Publication:

Falmouth : Urbanomic, 2014.

Description:

1 online resource

Series:

RE ; 004

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Intro; Contents; INTRODUCTION; Amanda Beech: Art and its 'Science'; Benedict Singleton: Speculative Design; Tom Trevatt: The Cosmic Address; Discussion; Nick Srnicek: Accelerationism-Epistemic, Economic, Political; James Trafford: Towards a Speculative Rationality; Alex Williams: The Politics of Abstraction; Ray Brassier: Prometheanism and Real Abstraction; Discussion; Mark Fisher: Practical Eliminativism: Getting Out of the Face, Again; Robin Mackay: Neo-Thalassa: A Fantasia on a Fantasia; Ben Woodard: Uncomfortable Aesthetics; Discussion; Notes on Contributors

Summary:

An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge.

Resources:
EBSCOhost
ProQuest Ebook Central
Kortext
Online Resource

ISBN:

9781913029098 (electronic bk.)
1913029093 (electronic bk.)
9780957529571
0957529570

Subject:

Aesthetics.
Realism.
Réalisme.
PHILOSOPHY Metaphysics.
Philosophy

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections

Added entries:

Pendrell, Luke, editor.
Mackay, Robin (Philosopher), editor.
Fisher, Mark, 1968-2017, editor.
Redactions ; 004.