Semblance and Event Free

Author: Brian Massumi
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262134918

Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)

Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. Get Semblance and Event computer books for free.
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, and others, develops the concept of "semblance" as a way to approach this question. It is, he argues, a question of abstraction, not as the opposite of the concrete but as a dimension of it: "lived abstraction." A semblance is a lived abstraction. Massumi uses the category of the semblance to investigate practices of art that are relational and event-oriented -- variously known as interactive art, ephemeral art, perf Check Semblance and Event our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

Semblance and Event Free

Massumi uses the category of the semblance to investigate practices of art that are relational and event-oriented -- variously known as interactive art, ephemeral art, perf

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