Publicado por Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0826473199 ISBN 13: 9780826473196
Librería: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Re-issue. LONDON : 2004. Paperback. Black and orange pictorial covers. Introduction by John Armitage. No owner name or internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. NEAR FINE. (ix), 115 pages. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107). Index. CONTENTS: Art and Fear : an introduction by John Armitage. Translator's Preface by Julie Rose -- A Pitiless Art -- Silence on Trial. Notes. Bibliography. SUMMARY: Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science over the 20th Century, a development that emerges as a nightmare dance of death. In Virilio's vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. At the start of the 21st century science has finally left art behind as genetic engineers prepare to turn themselves into the worst of expressionists, the Human Genome Project their godless manifesto, the human being, the raw material for new and monstrous forms of life. Virilio makes all the connections clear: between the way early 20th Century avant-gardes twisted and tortured the human form before making it vanish in abstraction and the blasting to bits of men who were no more than cannon fodder in the trenches of the Great War; between the German Expressionists' hate-filled portraits of the damned and the "medical" experiments of the Nazi eugenicists; between the mangled messages of sensationalist advertising and terrorism. A brutal logic rules this shattering of representation: our ways of seeing are now fatally shaped by unprecedented "scientific" modes of destruction. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping** [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].