Description
| Product ID: | 9780823270804 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory |
| Title: | Celebricities |
| Subtitle: | Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life |
| Authors: | Author: Anthony Curtis Adler |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | Television, Television, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Media studies: TV and society, Phenomenology & Existentialism, TV & society |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment. What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go “back to the things themselves” when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental theoretical interventions, Anthony Curtis Adler rethinks Marxist materialism and the Heideggerian project in terms of the singular experiences of late capitalism. In doing so, he reveals how the disarticulation of life via the commodity fetish demands at once a new notion of phenomenological method and an ontology oriented toward the radical contingency of being itself as transcendental ground. |
| Imprint Name: | Fordham University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Fordham University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-07-01 |
