Matt Tierney

What Lies Between (eBook, PDF)

Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted? Now is a moment that many believe has become post-racial, post- national, post-queer, and post-feminist. This belief is reaffirmed by recent events in the politics of diminished expectations, especially in the United States. What Lies Between illustrates how today's discourse repeats the post-politics of an earlier time. In the aftermath of World War II, both Communism and Fascism were no longer considered acceptable, political extremes appeared exhausted, and consensus appeared dominant. Then, unlike today, this consensus met a formal challenge, a disruption in the shape of a generative and negativist aesthetic figure-the void. What Lies Between explores fiction, film, and theory from this period that disrupted consensual and technocratic rhetorics with formal experimentation. It seeks to develop an aesthetic rebellion that is still relevant, and indeed vital, in the positivist present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216334071
• Artikelnr.: 74397278

Autorenporträt

Matt Tierney is Assistant Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Void
Introduction
1 Race and Other Voids
2 Talking Politics in the Fertile Void
Part II Medium
3 Medium upon Matter
4 Medium upon Medium
Part III Void as Medium
5 Melvillean Aesthetics, Postwar Post-politics
6 Dumb Blankness Full of Meaning
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index