Nicholas Zurbrugg
Biographic Data
| ID | 253045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Zurbrugg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Zurbrugg |
| SIGNATURE | ZURBRUGG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory
Getting "the real facts" contemporary cultural theory and avant-garde technocultural practices
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Postmodern culture is usually defined as an age of mechanical reproduction and mechanical degeneration characterized by the eradication of performative aura. This article argues that a crucial distinction should be made between the `anti-auratic' arguments of mainstream 20th-century cultural theory (discussed here in terms of the writings of Benjamin, Baudrillard and Virilio), and the regenerative auratic tradition in 20th-century avant-garde per…
Virilio, Stelarc and Terminal Technoculture
Comparing the ways in which the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio and the Australian cybernetic performance artist Stelarc criticize or defend technological cultural practices, this article argues that Virilio's ambiguous responses to avant-garde art highlight his key ideas far move clearly than his single-minded critique of 'termninal' mass-cultural practices - without any relationship to art - in Polar Inertia and Open Sky. Virlio's The Art…
A century of hyper-violence' Paul Virilio: An Interview
Paul Virilio is one of the leading French theorists addressing late twentieth-century media culture. He is the General Director, ESA (Ecode Speciale d' Archiecture), Paris. English editions of his books include Bunker Archaeology (Princeton University Press), Speed and Politics and The Aesthetics of Disappearances (Semi-otex(e)), The Vision Machine (British Film Institute) and Laurence Louppe's anthology Traces of Dance (Dis Voir
Poesies Sonores
Introduction: Contemplating electronic arts
Jameson's Complaint: Video-art and the intertextual 'time-wall
All right, B. J cut. From now on we run a good clean show. A show you can take your kids and your grandmother to see it Just good clean magic for all the family
Fractal theory: Baudrillard and the contemporary arts. Jean Baudrillard interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg (Paris, April 13th 1989)
N.Z. Perhaps I could begin by asking you about the widespread influence of your writings upon artists and art critics. Are you surprised by this reaction? J .B. Well yes, because in many respects aesthetics and art have never really entered into my area of research. My interest in the object has always been for the non-aesthetic object, the banal object, or the meta physical object. I've never really been concerned with the aesthetic object. So …
Beckett and Babel: An Investigation into the Status of the Bilingual Work
Sound art, radio art, and post‐radio performance in Australia
Postmodernity, "Metaphore manquee", and the Myth of the Trans-Avant-Garde
The eras of Modernism and of Postmodernism are eras of conceptual, existential, and technological transition. Both in the years between the 1880s and the 1930s, and the years between the 1930s and the 1980s, cultural critics have been embarrassed by the proliferation of the new; by ways of conceiving cultural reality, ways of evaluating existence, and ways of mechanizing cultural reality.' These periods of intertextual crisis2 afflict both the cr…
"Comments on "Sound Poetry: I. History of Electro-Acoustic Approaches; II. Connections to Advanced Electronic Technologies
From ‘Gleam’ to ‘Gloom’ - The Volte Face Between the Criticism and Fiction of Samuel Beckett
ONE of more curious aspects of most critical responses ,to Beckett's work is surprising simplicity of their analysis of relationship between Beckett's early criticism and subsequent fiction. Critic after critic has testified to value of Beckett's' critical writings as a guide to preoccupations of his own novels and plays, and yet inspection reveals that a radicaland quite fascinating dichotomy separates assumptions of these two phases of Beckett'…
A century of hyper-violence' Paul Virilio: An Interview
Paul Virilio is one of the leading French theorists addressing late twentieth-century media culture. He is the General Director, ESA (Ecode Speciale d' Archiecture), Paris. English editions of his books include Bunker Archaeology (Princeton University Press), Speed and Politics and The Aesthetics of Disappearances (Semi-otex(e)), The Vision Machine (British Film Institute) and Laurence Louppe's anthology Traces of Dance (Dis Voir
Jameson's Complaint: Video-art and the intertextual 'time-wall
All right, B. J cut. From now on we run a good clean show. A show you can take your kids and your grandmother to see it Just good clean magic for all the family
Sound art, radio art, and post‐radio performance in Australia
Postmodernity, "Metaphore manquee", and the Myth of the Trans-Avant-Garde
The eras of Modernism and of Postmodernism are eras of conceptual, existential, and technological transition. Both in the years between the 1880s and the 1930s, and the years between the 1930s and the 1980s, cultural critics have been embarrassed by the proliferation of the new; by ways of conceiving cultural reality, ways of evaluating existence, and ways of mechanizing cultural reality.' These periods of intertextual crisis2 afflict both the cr…
From ‘Gleam’ to ‘Gloom’ - The Volte Face Between the Criticism and Fiction of Samuel Beckett
ONE of more curious aspects of most critical responses ,to Beckett's work is surprising simplicity of their analysis of relationship between Beckett's early criticism and subsequent fiction. Critic after critic has testified to value of Beckett's' critical writings as a guide to preoccupations of his own novels and plays, and yet inspection reveals that a radicaland quite fascinating dichotomy separates assumptions of these two phases of Beckett'…
"Comments on "Sound Poetry: I. History of Electro-Acoustic Approaches; II. Connections to Advanced Electronic Technologies
Postmodernity, "Metaphore manquee", and the Myth of the Trans-Avant-Garde
The eras of Modernism and of Postmodernism are eras of conceptual, existential, and technological transition. Both in the years between the 1880s and the 1930s, and the years between the 1930s and the 1980s, cultural critics have been embarrassed by the proliferation of the new; by ways of conceiving cultural reality, ways of evaluating existence, and ways of mechanizing cultural reality.' These periods of intertextual crisis2 afflict both the cr…
Sound art, radio art, and post‐radio performance in Australia
Fractal theory: Baudrillard and the contemporary arts. Jean Baudrillard interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg (Paris, April 13th 1989)
N.Z. Perhaps I could begin by asking you about the widespread influence of your writings upon artists and art critics. Are you surprised by this reaction? J .B. Well yes, because in many respects aesthetics and art have never really entered into my area of research. My interest in the object has always been for the non-aesthetic object, the banal object, or the meta physical object. I've never really been concerned with the aesthetic object. So …
Beckett and Babel: An Investigation into the Status of the Bilingual Work
Jameson's Complaint: Video-art and the intertextual 'time-wall
All right, B. J cut. From now on we run a good clean show. A show you can take your kids and your grandmother to see it Just good clean magic for all the family
Poesies Sonores
Introduction: Contemplating electronic arts
A century of hyper-violence' Paul Virilio: An Interview
Paul Virilio is one of the leading French theorists addressing late twentieth-century media culture. He is the General Director, ESA (Ecode Speciale d' Archiecture), Paris. English editions of his books include Bunker Archaeology (Princeton University Press), Speed and Politics and The Aesthetics of Disappearances (Semi-otex(e)), The Vision Machine (British Film Institute) and Laurence Louppe's anthology Traces of Dance (Dis Voir
Getting "the real facts" contemporary cultural theory and avant-garde technocultural practices
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Postmodern culture is usually defined as an age of mechanical reproduction and mechanical degeneration characterized by the eradication of performative aura. This article argues that a crucial distinction should be made between the `anti-auratic' arguments of mainstream 20th-century cultural theory (discussed here in terms of the writings of Benjamin, Baudrillard and Virilio), and the regenerative auratic tradition in 20th-century avant-garde per…
Virilio, Stelarc and Terminal Technoculture
Comparing the ways in which the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio and the Australian cybernetic performance artist Stelarc criticize or defend technological cultural practices, this article argues that Virilio's ambiguous responses to avant-garde art highlight his key ideas far move clearly than his single-minded critique of 'termninal' mass-cultural practices - without any relationship to art - in Polar Inertia and Open Sky. Virlio's The Art…
Critical vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory
Art (13 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)