The Politics and Ethics of the Index: Art and Culture in the Age of Virtuality (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)
Contributors: Griselda Pollock (Editor)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 19, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781845115678
Subjects: The Arts: General Issues; Social Science; Performing Arts; Sociology; Criticism; General; Performing Arts / General
Description: If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the groundedness and referentiality of the concept of the index. In this transdisciplinary book, major artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theo.