About the Author

Avital Ronell’s books include The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) and Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), both published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is chair of and professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and a professor of comparative literature at New York University.

Reviews

"Brilliant."-Esquire Esquire "'Trauma TV' is ... the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written."-Artforum Artforum "Over the past decade, Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era."-Jonathan Culler -- Jonathan Culler "[Avital Ronell] jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical jargon of the academy with the adroitness of a speed-fiend switchboard operator... [She is] the reigning queen of termino-millenarianism."-Poetics Today Poetics Today "This collection is stunning. Ronell has achieved a work of thinking at the highest level."-John P. Leavey Jr. -- John P. Leavey Jr.