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The primary focus of this essay is the forms of reading proposed by contemporary, commercial magazines and books, with consideration of related concepts in pop music and electronic media. It raises the question of what it means to read and interpret when the parameters of visual and verbal signs and contexts are transient and mutable. Zelevansky asks "what does scanning, sampling, hypermedia, etc. mean for the creators and consumers of books destined for the new electronic superstore? The future of the book form is entwined with the future of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The jacket design was done by Richard Eckersley.Diane Davis Amazon.com. Avital Ronell is one of the most provocative, street-savvy, and theoretically sophisticated thinkers of this age. If you've not yet encountered her explosive work (her other books: Dictations, The Telephone Book, Crack Wars, Finitude's Score), Stupidity will most definitely blow you away. And if you are already a die-hard Ronell fan, Stupidity will ... blow you away. (No amount of prep will brace you sufficiently.) Like Ronell's other works, Stupidity offers a kind of post-critical or nonrepresentational analysis, going after a seemingly recognizable and knowable signifier (stupidity) but tracking it so closely that it quickly becomes unrecognizable, exceeding its object-status, overflowing itself as a concept. Explicitly breaking with scholarly tradition, a tradition that over-values mastery and certitude, Ronell engages her "object" of study at the level of its radical singularity, tracking it through poets,...

Scope and Contents This book was designed by Richard Eckersley and is one of the most outstanding examples of experimental book design for a non-fiction book of the 20th century. The main text is formatted in terms of indexing like the white pages of a telephone directory and the footnotes and index are printed on orange colored pages to simulate the yellow pages. The page layouts include mixing of fonts, fragmenting sentences, overprinting, sentences constructed like Parole in Liberta, and interspercing of diagrams.The first part of the text deals with the philosopher, Heidegger's Nazi leanings and how one of his subsequent excuses related to a telephoned request for action. The following sections continue to attack his philosophical theories as well, with themes of psychoanalysis and telephone calls, and the place of the telephone in American society. Alexander Graham Bell and his relationship with Helen Keller are described as well as his work with Thomas A. Watson. "Remember: when you're on the...