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Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
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ISBN
9780674088122
EAN
9780674088122
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Our Aesthetic Categories : Zany, Cute, Interesting
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Sianne Ngai
Item Length
9.5in
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Number of Pages
344 Pages
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The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people use to process the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism, treating them with the same seriousness philosophers have reserved for analysis of the beautiful and the sublime. Ngai explores how each of these aesthetic categories expresses conflicting feelings that connect to the ways in which postmodern subjects work, exchange, and consume. As a style of performing that takes the form of affective labor, the zany is bound up with production and engages our playfulness and our sense of desperation. The interesting is tied to the circulation of discourse and inspires interest but also boredom. The cute's involvement with consumption brings out feelings of tenderness and aggression simultaneously. At the deepest level, Ngai argues, these equivocal categories are about our complex relationship to performing, information, and commodities. Through readings of Adorno, Schlegel, and Nietzsche alongside cultural artifacts ranging from Bob Perelman's poetry to Ed Ruscha's photography books to the situation comedy of Lucille Ball, Ngai shows how these everyday aesthetic categories also provide traction to classic problems in aesthetic theory. The zany, cute, and interesting are not postmodernity's only meaningful aesthetic categories, Ngai argues, but the ones best suited for grasping the radical transformation of aesthetic experience and discourse under its conditions.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674088123
ISBN-13
9780674088122
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219263302
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Our Aesthetic Categories : Zany, Cute, Interesting
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bh201.N485 2015
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Epistemology, Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, History & Surveys / Modern, Semiotics & Theory
Dewey Decimal
111/.85
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
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