TY  - GEN
T1  - Lyotard and the inhuman condition : reflections on nihilism, information, and art
T2  - Technicities.
A1  - Woodward, Ashley
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn964357559
AB  - Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanism. Ashley Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio. Jean-FranÃʹois Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide-ranging and highly original contributions to thought were overshadowed by his brief, unfortunate association with 'postmodernism.' Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'.
OP  - 213
CN  - B2430.L964 W66 2016eb
SN  - 9781474404914
SN  - 147440491X
SN  - 9780748697250
SN  - 074869725X
SN  - 9780748697243
SN  - 0748697241
KW  - Lyotard, Jean-François, : 1924-1998 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Lyotard, Jean-François, : 1924-1998
KW  - Nihilism (Philosophy)
KW  - Information theory.
KW  - Nihilisme.
KW  - Théorie de l'information.
KW  - nihilism.
KW  - Information theory
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -