Our Aesthetic Categories Zany, Cute, Interesting

Name: Our Aesthetic Categories Zany, Cute, Interesting
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ISBN: 9780674046580

ISBN-10: 0674046587

ISBN-13: 9780674046580

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sianne Ngai

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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…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Sianne Ngai is Professor of English at Stanford University.



Introduction



The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde



Merely Interesting



The Zany Science


Afterword


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index