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How to Do Things with Dead People

- History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
Af: Alice Dailey Engelsk Hardback

How to Do Things with Dead People

- History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
Af: Alice Dailey Engelsk Hardback
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How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare''s English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things—technologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning.

By situating Shakespeare''s historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological order. Working from an eclectic body of theories, pictures, and machines that transcend time and media, Dailey composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, to rule, to love, to wish and create.

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How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare''s English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things—technologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning.

By situating Shakespeare''s historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological order. Working from an eclectic body of theories, pictures, and machines that transcend time and media, Dailey composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, to rule, to love, to wish and create.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9781501763656
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1501763652
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 15 jun 2022
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 jun 2022
Forfatter(e): Alice Dailey
Forfatter(e) Alice Dailey


Kategori Storbritannien


ISBN-13 9781501763656


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 264


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 15 jun 2022


Oplagsdato 15 jun 2022


Forlag Cornell University Press

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