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Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form

Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form - Hardcover

by Elena del Río
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Availability:In StockPublish date:2025-11-30Pages:280
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399554770ISBN-10:1399554778UPC:9781399554770Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Individual Philosophers, PoliticalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.25Product ID:SC9B98ZANG

Both Viola and Simondon prioritise a techno-aesthetic experience that reveals a consistent pattern of interdependence between form and matter, nature and culture, human and nonhuman. Inspired by Simondon's ideas on individuation as process, and by other major figures of process philosophy such as Raymond Ruyer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Brian Massumi, Elena del Río delves deep into Viola's art and finds a politics of nature that is also a politics of the affects. In taking full account of the interrelation between collective affects and living milieus, this politics exceeds the still anthropocentric project of a politics reductively focused on environmental degradation.

The book works with a broad concept of ecology that encompasses a nature-culture continuum - from Simondon's associated milieu to Guattari's tripartite ecological praxis, from Deleuze and Guattari's existential territories to Massumi's affective events. Attending to this nature-culture continuum and activating our collective energies are prime strategies in tackling the overwhelming psycho-social and environmental crises we face.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399554770ISBN-10:1399554778UPC:9781399554770Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Individual Philosophers, PoliticalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.25Product ID:SC9B98ZANG
del Río, Elena: - Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as Alphaville, Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Deleuze Studies, Discourse, Film-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and SubStance. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Elena del Río

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