The Uberreader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell

by Ronell, Avital

• ISBN13: 9780252030666
• ISBN10: 0252030664
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-30
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

With courage and humor, Avital Ronell takes thinking and writing into wild and dangerous places. The UberReader introduces her groundbreaking work on drug rhetoric, technology's fatal attractions, and the odd prestige of stupidity. The UberReader includes previously uncollected essays, selections from her books, and some of her most powerful public talks. An extensive introduction by Diane Davis surveys and situates Ronell's hard-hitting work, and recalls some of the most important critical responses it has provoked. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Avital Ronell is a professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she codirects Transdisciplinary Studies in Trauma and Violence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The Call of Technology
Delay Call Forwarding	p. 5
Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm	p. 38
TraumaTV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle	p. 63
State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security	p. 89
Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts
On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested	p. 101
Toward a Narcoanalysis	p. 128
Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas	p. 141
Preface to Dictations	p. 145
Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body
A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship	p. 161
The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot	p. 168
The Philosophical Code: Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim	p. 188
Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups
The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's "Andenken"	p. 205
On Friendship; Or, Kathy Goes to Hell	p. 227
Loving Your Enemy	p. 240
The Fading Empire of Cognition
Slow Learner	p. 259
The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test)	p. 293
Koan Practice or Taking Down the Test	p. 307
"Is It Happening?"	p. 324
Index	p. 329
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