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  • Image, Art and Virtuality

    Towards an Aesthetics of Relation

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way. Starting with the notion of system, it shows that the system can be understood as a relational structure, and that relations can be assessed within themselves, with no need to transform relations in elements. “Relations” are understood in contrast to “relational property”: without a relation there is no identity, therefore ... Read more

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  • The Sensible Invisible

    Itineraries in Aesthetic Ontology

    The itineraries traced by this book investigate the ontological and metaphysical sense of aesthetic experience. This latter is here understood as the primary experience through which our whole existence as human beings is endowed with the world and can manifest itself. Readers will find two different yet convergent intentions. The first, exquisitely concerned with ontology and aesthetics, develops ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics of the Virtual

    Translated by Justin L. Harmon ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics in Present Future

    The Arts and the Technological Horizon

    Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon is a collection of essays by scholars and a few artists who focus on the issue of how arts either change when conveyed by new media (such as the web, 3D printers, and videos) or are simply diffused by them. The contributors’ analyses describe how both virtual production and virtual communication change our attitudes toward what ... Read more

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    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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  • Circles Disturbed

    The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

    Why narrative is essential to mathematicsCircles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier—"Don't disturb my circles"—words that seem to refer to two radically different ... Read more

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  • Umberto Eco

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    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
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    How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and ... Read more

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  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

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    Merleau-Ponty was a pivotal figure in twentieth century French philosophy. He was responsible for bringing the phenomenological methods of the German philosophers - Husserl and Heidegger - to France and instigated a new wave of interest in this approach. His influence extended well beyond the boundaries of philosophy and can be seen in theories of politics, psychology, art and language.This is the ... Read more

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  • "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays

    Translated by David Kishik, Stefan Pedatella ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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  • What's These Worlds Coming To?

    Series series Forms of Living
    The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding.Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we ... Read more

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