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  • her voice is full of money Mechanical Reproduction and a metaphysics of substance in f scott fitzgerald s the great gatsby
    English Studies, 2018
    Co-Authors: Marcos Antonio Norris
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACTMuch has been written on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, but critics have largely ignored how 1920s consumer culture contributes to the novel’s philosophical themes. Viewing the novel through Marxist literary critic Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, this article argues that 1920s consumer society—and the popularisation of Mechanically reproduced consumer goods—deconstructs the metaphysical underpinnings of upperclass privilege modelled by Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby strives to imitate an aristocratic identity but is eventually found out by Tom, who exposes Gatsby’s social performance as an inauthentic forgery. But, as Benjamin argues, Mechanical Reproduction results in a diminished aura, the originary ontology that authorises a metaphysics of substance and, with it, a social order governed by the logic of authenticity. So, while the American aristocracy is successful in its condemnation of Gatsby’s inauthentic social performance, the novel decons...

  • “Her Voice is Full of Money”: Mechanical Reproduction and a Metaphysics of Substance in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
    English Studies, 2018
    Co-Authors: Marcos Antonio Norris
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACTMuch has been written on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, but critics have largely ignored how 1920s consumer culture contributes to the novel’s philosophical themes. Viewing the novel through Marxist literary critic Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, this article argues that 1920s consumer society—and the popularisation of Mechanically reproduced consumer goods—deconstructs the metaphysical underpinnings of upperclass privilege modelled by Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby strives to imitate an aristocratic identity but is eventually found out by Tom, who exposes Gatsby’s social performance as an inauthentic forgery. But, as Benjamin argues, Mechanical Reproduction results in a diminished aura, the originary ontology that authorises a metaphysics of substance and, with it, a social order governed by the logic of authenticity. So, while the American aristocracy is successful in its condemnation of Gatsby’s inauthentic social performance, the novel decons...

Alan Klima - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the funeral casino meditation massacre and exchange with the dead in thailand
    2002
    Co-Authors: Alan Klima
    Abstract:

    List of Illustrations vii Note on Transcription and Monetary Conversion ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 PART I: The Passed 2. The New World: Bangkok and the World Order without History 31 3. Revolting History: The Necromantic Power of Public Massacres 53 4. Bloodless Power: A Moral Economy of the Thai Crowd 89 5. Repulsiveness of the Body Politic: An Economics of the Black May Massacre 122 PART II: Kamma 6. The Charnel Ground: Visions of Death in Buddhist Asceis and the Redemption of Mechanical Reproduction 169 7. The Funeral Casino: A Mindful Economy 231 Notes 291 Bibliography 305 Index 313

  • The Telegraphic Abject: Buddhist Meditation and the Redemption of Mechanical Reproduction
    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2001
    Co-Authors: Alan Klima
    Abstract:

    Are our minds becoming numb to images of death and violence? Though this question could hardly be settled even by the most extensive public polling techniques, it is of grave concern to theorists of modern visual media. It has become almost common sense that something momentous has happened in the proliferation of Mechanical Reproduction and electronic simulation, transforming our very sensory faculties to dangerous and largely disempowering effect. Some of the most radically historicizing media theory written in recent years concerns the alteration of our senses by discourses of vision or technologies of mass- mediated visuality (Crary 1990; Buck-Morss 1994; 1997; Feldman 1994; Levin 1993). These writings often turn on arguments about violent ruptures in modernity between the body qua body and the body as represented visually, especially where it concerns the depiction of the abject, such as in graphic violence and death. An over-kill of body-imagery circulates in what may seem like a postmodern “hyperspace” without corporeal bearings (Jameson 1991), flowing in “global mediascapes” with little regard to the limitations of time and space (Appadurai 1996), in flattened simulacra divested of multi-dimensional sensory embodiment (Buck-Morss 1994; 1998; Feldman 1994), and in an apparatus which enforces the privilege of the realm of vision over all other sensory channels (Crary 1990; Levin 1993). Two-dimensional Reproductions swirl over the surface of the planet, carrying impressions of the body in violence and in death, graphic images that repeat themselves with such serial regularity that we are possibly becoming inured to them, and ever further distanced from the suffering they represent. Where our capacity for empathy, outrage, and compassion disappears, there also goes our ability to initiate sane reactions to insane actions.

Carl Djerassi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Play: Scene Are sex and fertilisation ready for divorce?
    The Lancet, 2006
    Co-Authors: Carl Djerassi
    Abstract:

    In his famous 1936 essay, The work of art in an age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin stated: “The technique of Reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” But if “The work of art” is replaced by “Sex” in the title, and “reproduced object” by “off spring” in the quotation, a much deeper issue is illustrated: detachment of the child from trad itional procreation may well be the most fundamental ethical issue raised by techniques of assisted Reproduction. Neither science nor society has so far adequately prepared us for that consequence of sex in an age of Mechanical Reproduction.

  • Sex in an age of Mechanical Reproduction.
    Science (New York N.Y.), 1999
    Co-Authors: Carl Djerassi
    Abstract:

    In a provocative Essay on Science and Society, Carl Djerassi --who launched the sexual revolution of the 1960s when he synthesized the first steroid oral contraceptive--discusses how the start of the new millennium will be the era of conception (at least in the affluent countries of the world). This contrasts with the last 50 years of the 20th century, which, thanks to the Pill, were the decades of contraception. Djerassi discusses the ethical and social implications of the continued improvements to assisted reproductive technologies (ART), which are enabling older women to conceive and bear children even beyond menopause.

Stephen Hughes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema
    The Journal of Asian Studies, 2007
    Co-Authors: Stephen Hughes
    Abstract:

    During the first half of the twentieth century, new mass media practices radically altered traditional cultural forms and performance in a complex encounter that incited much debate, criticism, and celebration the world over. This essay examines how the new sound media of gramophone and sound cinema took up the live performance genres of Tamil drama. Professor Hughes argues that south Indian music recording companies and their products prefigured, mediated, and transcended the musical relationship between stage drama and Tamil cinema. The music recording industry not only transformed Tamil drama music into a commodity for mass circulation before the advent of talkies but also mediated the musical relationship between Tamil drama and cinema, helped to create film songs as a new and distinct popular music genre, and produced a new mass culture of film songs.