Theory Of The Gimmick
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Theory Of The Gimmick
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Author : Sianne Ngai
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2020-06-16
Theory Of The Gimmick written by Sianne Ngai and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with Philosophy categories.
Christian Gauss Award Shortlist Winner of the ASAP Book Prize A Literary Hub Book of the Year “Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag’s best work.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Ngai exposes capitalism’s tricks in her mind-blowing study of the time- and labor-saving devices we call gimmicks.” —New Statesman “One of the most creative humanities scholars working today...My god, it’s so good.” —Literary Hub “Ngai is a keen analyst of overlooked or denigrated categories in art and life...Highly original.” —4Columns “It is undeniable that part of what makes Ngai’s analyses of aesthetic categories so appealing...is simply her capacity to speak about them brilliantly.” —Bookforum “A page turner.” —American Literary History Deeply objectionable and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention). When we call something a gimmick, we register misgivings that suggest broader anxieties about value, money, and time, making the gimmick a hallmark of capitalism. With wit and critical precision, Ngai explores the extravagantly impoverished gimmick across a range of examples: the fiction of Thomas Mann, Helen DeWitt, and Henry James; the video art of Stan Douglas; the theoretical writings of Stanley Cavell and Theodor Adorno. Despite its status as cheap and compromised, the gimmick emerges as a surprisingly powerful tool in this formidable contribution to aesthetic theory.
Ugly Feelings
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Author : Sianne Ngai
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-01
Ugly Feelings written by Sianne Ngai and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.
Theory Of The Gimmick
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Author : Sianne Ngai
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-16
Theory Of The Gimmick written by Sianne Ngai and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with Philosophy categories.
Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises of saving labor and increasing value that we distrust but also find attractive. Exploring the use of this form, Ngai shows how its aesthetic dissatisfactions reflect deeper anxieties about capitalism.
Our Aesthetic Categories
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Author : Sianne Ngai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Our Aesthetic Categories written by Sianne Ngai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Aesthetics, Modern categories.
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.
The Topological Imagination
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Author : Angus Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-04
The Topological Imagination written by Angus Fletcher and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with Philosophy categories.
In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.
In Praise Of Athletic Beauty
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Author : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006
In Praise Of Athletic Beauty written by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.
This book looks beyond the usual explanations of why sports fascinates, and also strives for a language that can frame the pleasure we take in watching athletic events. Gumbrecht argues that the fascination with watching sports is probably the most popular and potent contemporary form of aesthetic experience.
New Media Old Media
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Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
New Media Old Media written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Computers categories.
In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.
Benjamin S Abilities
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Author : Samuel Weber
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Benjamin S Abilities written by Samuel Weber and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
A leading theorist on literature and media reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing on the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language.
Racial Melancholia Racial Dissociation
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Author : David L. Eng
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-17
Racial Melancholia Racial Dissociation written by David L. Eng and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-17 with Social Science categories.
In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
Wonder The Rainbow And The Aesthetics Of Rare Experiences
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Author : Philip Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998
Wonder The Rainbow And The Aesthetics Of Rare Experiences written by Philip Fisher and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
Why pause and study this particular painting among so many others ranged on a gallery wall? Wonder, which Descartes called the first of the passions, is at play; it couples surprise with a wish to know more, the pleasurable promise that what is novel or rare may become familiar. This is a book about the aesthetics of wonder, about wonder as it figures in our relation to the visual world and to rare or new experiences. In three instructive instances--a pair of paintings by Cy Twombly, the famous problem of doubling the area of a square, and the history of attempts to explain rainbows--Philip Fisher examines the experience of wonder as it draws together pleasure, thinking, and the aesthetic features of thought. Through these examples he places wonder in relation to the ordinary and the everyday as well as to its opposite, fear. The remarkable story of how rainbows came to be explained, fraught with errors, half-knowledge, and incomplete understanding, suggests that certain knowledge cannot be what we expect when wonder engages us. Instead, Fisher argues, a detailed familiarity, similar to knowing our way around a building or a painting, is the ultimate meeting point for aesthetic and scientific encounters with novelty, rare experiences, and the genuinely new.