Theory of the Gimmick PDF book is popular Philosophy book written by Sianne Ngai. The book was released by Harvard University Press on 2020-06-16 with total hardcover pages 417. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Theory of the Gimmick by Sianne Ngai in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a fo
Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situati
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the am
Approaching the study of literature as a unique form of the philosophy of language and mind--as a study of how we produce nonsense and imagine it as sense--this
Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two c
