Theory of the Gimmick Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Info autore

Sianne Ngai is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Ugly Feelings and Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, winner of the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize. Her work has been translated into multiple languages.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sianne Ngai, Ngai Sianne
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.10.2022
• Categoria: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi
• EAN: 9780674278745
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27874-5
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.6 x 23.5 x 3 cm
• Categorie: Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Popular philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory, Feminist Theory, Marxist theory; Marxist aesthetic theory; Value-form theory; Philosophy of art and aesthetics; Immanuel Kant; Suspiria; The Sacred Fount; Rob Halpern; Feminist Theory; Nicola Barker; Clear: A Transparent Novel; Lightning Rods; Rube Goldberg; Mark Twa, Lightning Rods, nicola barker, value-form theory, Rob Halpern, Clear: A Transparent Novel, Philosophy of art and aesthetics, Suspiria, The Sacred Fount, Rube Goldberg, Marxist aesthetic theory