Parables for the Virtual
Parables for the Virtual
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虚拟的寓言
DOI：
10.1215/9780822383574
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
B. Massumi
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作者：
B. Massumi
自二十年前出版以来，布赖恩·姆雷西的开创性虚拟寓言已经成为人文学科跨学科学者的重要文本。姆普西认为身体和媒体，如电视、电影和互联网，是在多个感觉寄存器上运作的文化形态。通过对战后法国哲学德勒兹、瓜塔里和福柯的过滤，对威廉·詹姆斯的激进经验主义和亨利·柏格森的感知哲学进行了更新和评估，姆普西将变异的文化逻辑与运动、情感和感觉的问题联系在一起。用静止和运动以及真实和虚拟之间的区别来取代传统的文字和人物的对立，姆雷西通过将它们应用于各种文化媒介，如建筑、人体艺术、斯泰勒克的数字艺术和罗纳德·里根的表演生涯，解决了相关的理论问题。其结果是一个有趣的文化理论、科学和哲学的结合，在一个水晶和多方面的论证中断言自己。
这本二十周年纪念版包括一个新的序言，在序言中，姆普斯维介绍了该书自出版以来的发展情况，并概述了其主要概念的演变。它还包括两个简短的文本，“情感的关键字”和“关于情感的遗漏概念”，在这两个文本中，姆普西以强调该书的政治和哲学利害关系的方式阐述了他对情感的方法。
Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multifaceted argument.
This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts, “Keywords for Affect” and “Missed Conceptions about Affect,” in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.