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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.
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.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Populäre Darstellungen |
| Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780674278745 |
| ISBN-10: | 0674278747 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Ngai, Sianne |
| Hersteller: | Harvard University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 233 x 154 x 31 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sianne Ngai |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.12.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,53 kg |
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