Browsing Institutional Archive by Author "Kane, Michael"

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On Time – going forward, going backwards and going around and around – from postmodern to mostmodern times

Kane, Michael (Dublin Business School, 2016)

One of the most characteristic characteristics of postmodern times, according to Fredric Jameson, was to do with time – the “waning”, as he puts it, of “the great high-modernist thematics of time and temporality, the elegiac ...
This is the end. DeLillo and Virilio at the beginning of the century

Kane, Michael (Dublin Business School, 2014)

This paper will explore the similarities in the visions of the city and the world at the turn of the century in Don DeLillo’s novel Cosmopolis (2003), David Cronenberg’s film adaptation (2012) of the same and Paul Virilio’s ...
The time and space of the work of art in the age of “Electrickery”

Kane, Michael (Dublin Business School, 2015)

Starting by returning to Walter Benjamin’s idea in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” that the technical reproducibility involved in the new media of photography and film would promote a “revolutionary ...