TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crocker,Stephen
TI  - Bergson and the metaphysics of media
SN  - 9781137324498 :
AV  - B2430.B43 C76 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Bergson, Henri,
KW  - Metaphysik
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Medium as means and obstacle. Methaphysical media: the discrete and the continuous in Deleuze and McLuhan -- One or many planes: the composition of intervals in painting and film -- Sounds complicated: audition as "three-dimensional thought" -- Noise is the presence of the medium -- Killing time. Sychony and diachrony. Instrumental reason and the war on intervals -- Distracted and contemplative time -- Empty, homogenous time/any-moment-whatever -- Man falls down: unanswerable situations. Compormise formations: Bergson's vitalism -- Unanswerable situations -- Conclusion: on failure and wonder
ER  -