Name: Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (en Inglés)
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Author: Ngai, Sianne
ISBN: 9780674278745

portada Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Sianne Ngai

Editorial

Belknap Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

416

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.5 x 15.8 x 2.9 cm

Peso

0.53 kg.

ISBN13

9780674278745

Categorías

Aspectos generales del arte
Teoría literaria
Semiología
Filosofía estética

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (en Inglés)

Sianne Ngai (Autor) · Belknap Press · Tapa Blanda

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Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA 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.