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Life-Destroying Diagrams (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to formal logics of torture and cruelty, violence and finitude, friendship and eros, debt and care. Beginning with a wholesale rethinking of the affect of horror, orienting it away from entrenched models of feeling toward impersonal schemes and structures, Brinkema moves outward to consider the relation between objects and affects, humiliation and metaphysics, genre and the general, bodily destruction and aesthetic generation, geometry and scenography, hatred and value, love and measurement, and, ultimately, the tensions, hazards, and speculative promise of formalism itself. Replete with etymological meditations, performative typography, and lyrical digressions, Life-Destroying Diagrams is at once a model of reading without guarantee and a series of generative experiments in the writing of aesthetic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021650
• Artikelnr.: 66283044

Autorenporträt

Eugenie Brinkema is Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Forms of the Affects, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  xi
Exordia  xv
1. Horr¿re Or  1
2. The Ordinal (Death by Design)  36
Interlude I. Abecedarium  81
Interlude II. Rhythm & Feel  101
Lapsus  119
Interlude III. Objects, Relations, Shape  125
3. Grid, Table, Failure, Line  145
Two Violences  193
4. Middle-Term Notations: Letter, Number, Diagram  202
Postscript. ars formularia: Radical Formalism and the Speculative Task  251
Love and Measurement 289
Acknowledgments (On the Erotics of the Colleague)  371
Notes  379
Bibliography  421
Index  443