Stratagem of the Corpse : Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra /: Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gary J., Shipley ; Foreword by William Pawlett.
• Other Names: Shipley, Gary J; Pawlett, William
• Contents: Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by William Pawlet -- Chapter Int-12 -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 On Decay and Other Synthetics -- 1.1 The Enigma of the Carcass -- 1.2 Forgetting Life as a Solution to Death -- 1.3 My Corpse the Double -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Stratagem of the Corpse -- 2.1 The Art of Death -- 2.2 Models of the Models of the Real -- Notes -- Chapter 3 A Bleak Non-History of History -- 3.1 Filming the Apocalypse -- 3.2 Obscenity as the Horror of Depersonalization 3.3 The Implosion of Depression as Pornography -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Hyperactivity of Objects -- 4.1 The Resurrected Object -- 4.2 The Exploding Corpse -- 4.3 Philip K. Dick Did Not Exist -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Unnamable Catastrophe -- 5.1 Media from the Dead -- 5.2 Rotting and Violence -- 5.3 The Implausibility of Scandal -- Notes -- Chapter 6 A Cure for Vertigo -- 6.1 Vertigo and the Cost of Happiness -- 6.2 Holographic Autophagy -- 6.3 The Meaning of Terror -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Chance and the Temporality of Death -- 7.1 The Reverse Mutilation of the Accident -- 7.2 Paralysis and Panic Notes -- Chapter 8 The Possibility of Nihilism -- 8.1 Schopenhauer's Twofold Dying -- 8.2 Some Hell of Obscene Clarity -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Smell-O-Vision: The Murder Show -- 9.1 The Pataphysical Murder-Machine -- 9.2 The Residue of Residues -- Notes -- Chapter 10 The Evil Death -- 10.1 Kant's Schizo Self -- 10.2 The Unthinkability of Meaning -- 10.3 A Baudrillardian Pessimism -- Notes -- Chapter 11 False Confessions and the Madness of Death: Making Death Speak -- 11.1 Simulating and the Pretence of Agency -- 11.2 My Mad Love of Faces -- 11.3 Talking to the Dead -- Notes Chapter 12 Black Light: Nigredo and Catastrophe -- 12.1 For the Love of Death: A Necrophilic Seduction -- Notes -- End Matter -- Appendix 1: Whiteout: Spatiotemporal Interstices, Necropresence and the Immortality of Now -- Coda -- Notes -- Appendix 2: Pure Dreaming: Radicalized and Vermiculated Thought, or Death as an Earworm -- Coda -- Notes -- Appendix 3: The Non-Existence of the Scream -- Notes -- Index
• Publisher Details: London New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302; Death; Social psychology; Symbolism (Psychology); Value; Death; Social psychology; Symbolism (Psychology); Value; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785272769; 1785272764; 9781785272776; 1785272772
• Related ISBNs: 9781785272752
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2020).
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