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Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publication(s)
in Critical and Media Studies:
* The Matrix in Theory.
Edited by Myriam Diocaretz and Stefan Herbrechter.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 314 pp. (Critical Studies 29)
ISBN-10: 90-420-1639-6 Bound Euro 65,-/$ 85.-
ISBN-13: 978-90-420-1639-2
Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CRIT+29
The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the
downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has
been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural
references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix
trilogy continues to provoke and evaluate how or to what extent they
coincide with certain developments within critical and cultural theory. Is
the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurned by the Matrix a
sign of the desperate state theory is in, in the sense of “see how low
theory (or ‘post-theory’) has sunk”? Or could the Matrix be one of
the “master texts” for something like a renewal for theory as now being
mainly concerned with new and changing relations between science,
technology, posthumanist culture, art, politics, ethics and the media? The
present volume is unashamedly but not dogmatically theoretical even though
there is not much agreement about what kind of theory is best suited to
confront “post-theoretical” times. But it is probably fair to say that
there is agreement about one thing, namely that if theory appears to
be “like” the Matrix today it does so because the culture around it and
which “made” it itself seems to be captured in some kind of Matrix. The
only way out of this is through more and renewed, refreshed theorising,
not less.
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