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| LOUIS ARMAND BOOKS (1998-2010) |
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| solicitations: essay on criticism & culture prague: litteraria pragensia, 2008 isbn 80-7308-242-0 515pp. The topics addressed in these essays range from laissez-faire economics and the state of contemporary culture, to the foundations of ethical philosophy. 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, yet focused and sustained, critique of the legacies of modernity and beyond. Adopting the critical paradigm of solicitation, Armand demonstrates how structure is perceived through an incidence of crisis, and that these crises are pervasive in human experience. The essays included in this volume address the work of specific writers, philosophers, artists, as well as broader issues of history, futurity and the digital age. Jacques Derrida, James Joyce, Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, Karl Jaspers are read alongside Buckminster Fuller, Julia Kristeva, Marshall McLuhan, John Dewey, as well as recent and contemporary artists such as John Cage, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Michael Dransfield and John Kinsella. "...these essays perform a transversal, or "swarming" movement that covers an astonishingly wide spectrum'--Jeroen Nieuwland, Jacket Magazine" "armand is the international conduit for much of the dialogue that’s developing today. he is an internationalist, an innovator … he’s genre busting & on an 'open' passport" --John Kinsella, The Sydney Morning Herald |