...At the Edge of an Epochal Turning Point ...

...“Social Games”<subtitle>Playing Our Part in the Systems Epoch</subtitle> This chapter focuses on modern games and the game-like order of things in the systems epoch. The chapter centers on form games, war games, and social games. It shows how games have a central place in modern social...

... Edmund Husserl epoché Unterschiebung phenomenological body ...

... Kehre epochs of Being Gestell (technological frame) poiesis dwelling ...

... is Kazuo Ishiguro’s recent novel about artful forms of life and death, secluded education, and ecologies of ignorance, in the systems epoch: Never Let Me Go . Ishiguro’s fiction is about art in the systems epoch in being about artificial life in the autonomy-enclaves of that epoch. Social games...

... reconstruction of Schmitt’s work on international law, and an outline of the contemporary phenomenon that Galli calls “global war,” Galli answers this question in the negative: the global age is that epoch in which Schmitt’s concepts have lost their grasp on the crises in relation to which they emerged...

... of Schmitt’s political thought doubles as a premise for Galli’s deconstruction of that same thought. Galli conceives the postmodern (or “global age”) in terms that are at once specifically Schmittian and completely non-Schmittian: it is that epoch in which Schmitt’s concepts have, on Schmitt’s own terms, lost...

... and backward, at the past and at the future, at one and the same time. So too Schmitt: writing during the twilight of the epoch of modern politics (the twentieth century), Schmitt’s contribution was to have thought the dawn of that epoch (its emergence from the ruins of medieval order). This genealogy, however...

... Chapter 3 reframes the historical inquiry of the previous chapters as a philosophical project. Drawing on the work of Edmund Husserl, it describes his concept of epoché and explains how it allows a rereading of Descartes's meditation on wax in the context of his anatomical experiments...

...—the oblivion of Being. It demonstrates how language and art functioned within his later works. Kehre epochs of Being Gestell (technological frame) poiesis dwelling ...

...The Daily Planet This part sets out the premises of the official world and describes the emergence of a self-reporting form of society: its cultural technologies and its aesthetic techniques. It defines the epoch of social systems and our indoor social life. The chapter shows how suspense...

... This part sets out the premises of the official world and describes the emergence of a self-reporting form of society: its cultural technologies and its aesthetic techniques. It defines the epoch of social systems and our indoor social life. The chapter shows how suspense becomes a world...

... ), and comic book art. Description of the epoch of social systems, in relation to modern and contemporary art and the social theory of Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk. Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy...

...Suspended Worlds<subtitle>Men in Self-Curved Space</subtitle> This chapter takes up the crisis of the work of art in the epoch of social systems from another side.. The crisis of the art work now has become a way of posing the problem of action and intention in autotropic (self-turned...

... This chapter takes up the crisis of the work of art in the epoch of social systems from another side.. The crisis of the art work now has become a way of posing the problem of action and intention in autotropic (self-turned) systems. The art work now resembles a practical joke: a staging...

... this epochal historical transformation. The book and its argument come to a close with a final assessment of conceptual art’s part in this historical continuity and considerations of what Art &amp; Language’s work offers to artistic radicalism in the aftermath of modernism and the avant-garde. The collective’s...

... exposes the deep-rootedness of the phantasmatic structures that ground this epochal proposal and the narratives surrounding it, which remain bound up with affects and genres associated with underrepresented Man. The present crisis requires not the “geology of Man”—a term sometimes used synonymously...