Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium

by Avital Ronell

Book Overview

Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? " W]riting to the community of those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803289499
• ISBN13: 9780803289499
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 9.8"