Sianne Ngai - Böcker

The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials, The Cute exp...

Läs mer »

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 ...

Läs mer »

Envy, irritation, paranoiain contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to w...

Läs mer »

Envy, irritation, paranoia-in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to ...

Läs mer »

Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"e;Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag's best work."e;-Los Angeles...

Läs mer »

Christian Gauss Award Shortlist Winner of the ASAP Book Prize A Literary Hub Book of the Year Makes the case that the gimmickis of tremendous critical valueLies somewhere between critical theory and Sontags best work. Los Angeles Review of Books N...

Läs mer »

Envy, irritation, paranoia-in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to ...

Läs mer »

A Literary Hub Favorite Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year 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 form that can b...

Läs mer »

Für Sianne Ngai lassen sich das Niedliche (»cute«) und der Gimmick nicht als Kitsch (Adorno) oder Camp (Sontag) begreifen, also als Gegenstück zur ernsthaften Kunst; sie kommt vielmehr zu dem Schluss, dass die spezifischen sozialen Transformatione...

Läs mer »