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<nettime-ann> New Essays on Criticism and Culture |
. Litteraria Pragensia is pleased to announce the recent publication of: SOLICITATIONS: Essays on Criticism & Culture by Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-242-0 (paperback) 515pp, incl. index. Publication date: December 2008 !!! New Expanded and Revised Edition !!! http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/solicitations2.html Commencing with an analysis of the rhetoric of "crisis," Armand poses questions of central concern to the future of criticism and the institutions of knowledge. Focusing upon the role of technology in re- shaping the structures of human experience, language and cultural practice, this collection of essays offers a broad critique of the legacies of modernity and beyond. Louis Armand is director of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other (2006); Literate Technologies (2006) and Event-States (2007). http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/armand.html Also available from Litteraria Pragensia: LITERATE TECHNOLOGIES: LANGUAGE, COGNITION, TECHNICITY by Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-138-5 (paperback). 250pp. Publication date: October 2006 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lit_tech.html "Literate Technologies develops a general system of signs and meaning capable of combining theory and practice in a technological world, a world in which literature still has a vital role to play. The overarching effect is that of a concerted deployment of theories of language, signs, the letter, literacy and technology as applied to the works of the main literary experimenters of the 20th century. Armand unfolds a very convincing thesis that slowly displays its myriad ramifications."--Jean-Michel Rabate "Armand is unafraid to ask the most basic questions, to go beyond the zone in which most cultural discussions operate in order to ask what underlies our capacity for thought, for imaging, for communication. Time and again he takes his reader to the edge of what is thinkable, subjecting familiar concepts to stringent analysis and casting an original light on old debates."--Derek Attridge EVENT STATES: DISCOURSE, TIME, MEDIALITY by Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-168-3 (paperback). 300pp. Publication date: September 2007 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/event_states.html Part 2 of Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. Following from an earlier study of literate technologies, this volume seeks to examine a number of questions that inevitably come to surround any discussion of signification and dynamic systems; questions which concern the relationship between what is variously meant by the terms event and state, and which tend to coalesce around a number of problems to do with relativity and the discursive character of time or temporalisation, mediality, representation and the techno-logisation of presence. Such questions ultimately travel far afield, between ontology and classical epistemology, cybernetics and quantum physics, aesthetics and political science. For a complete catalogue of Litteraria titles, please visit www.litterariapragensia.com Litteraria Pragensia UALK, FF UK Nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, CZECH REPUBLIC tel./fax: +420-2-21619341 email : info@litterariapragensia.com www.litterariapragensia.com _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann