Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media
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archival instability
Author_Erin K. Stapleton
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cultural theory
culture
destruction
digital materiality
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eroticism and violence
human extinction studies
media
media philosophy
philosophy of expenditure in culture
posthumanism
queer theory
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- ISBN 9781041188261
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in execution and in eroticism, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilization of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures.
Erin K. Stapleton is currently a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.
