Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

by Brian Massumi

Book Overview

An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."

Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262525364
• ISBN13: 9780262525367
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher