Entropology

Life is to capital as light is to a blackhole. Yet this apparently irresistible power to "absorb everything" runs up against laws of entropy that cause a blackhole to evaporate & life to propagate & evolve in ever-increasing forms of complexity. In this pivotal study, Louis Armand develops an entropology of capital & its systems of cultural power, asserting the possibility of a critique beyond the gravitational pull of "capitalist realism." Entropology is a radical re-examination of the major tropes of ideology & their iteration in the poetics of modernity, the avantgarde, media culture, cybernetics & posthumanism. From this constellation, a new critical theory is brought into view-a theory of the immanence of technology to life &, concurrently, of life to technology.

Product details

• Authors: Louis Armand
• Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780999153574
• ISBN: 978-0-9991535-7-4
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 389 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies