Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

by Ashley Woodward

Ashley 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'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748697241
• ISBN13: 9780748697243
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"