Download or read book The Aesthetics of Ambivalence written by Brooks Landon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF in its provocative speculations on the future of such film. His study is really two books in one. The first part argues that most criticism of SF film has been inadequate because it is based on literary rather than film-specific standards. The second argues that SF film will soon become either obsolete or be totally transformed through new computer technology. What ties them together is the author's concern with what might be called the SF ethos or SF thinking, so that science fiction can be seen to encompass not only SF in print, film, TV and comic books, but has become all-pervasive in contemporary culture. At present, Landon argues that SF film may have exhausted itself as a genre but new electronic technology--computer animation, interactive narratives, and virtual reality--promises to radically transform SF film and possibly create a synthesis of the divergent trends of SF literature and film. Production technology has become the new story, one more interesting than the narrative it ostensibly supports. Landon believes we are at the threshold of a new age, similar to the pioneer years of filmmaking a hundred years ago.
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Ambivalence Pirandello Schopenhauer and the Transformation of the European Social Imaginary written by Michael Jonathan Subialka and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation reassesses the literary and theatrical work of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), by putting it in dialogue with the philosophical pessimism and aesthetics of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). By examining the way in which Pirandello’s modernist fiction draws inspiration from and re-figures Schopenhauer’s worldview, I show how his unique aesthetic of the ambivalent character connects the modernist “revolt” against 19th -century realism to earlier moments in Europe’s intellectual history. On one side, this rearticulation connects Pirandello’s modernism to the tradition of German-idealist aesthetics running from Jena romanticism to French decadentism, distinguishing Pirandello’s work from that of his avant-garde contemporaries, like the Futurists. At the same time, Pirandello’s multifaceted relation to 19th- and 20th-century intellectual and literary traditions is further complicated by his own fascination with the Renaissance-era elaboration of the visual grotesque. Examining these complexities, I add further nuance to our critical understanding of Pirandello’s modernism, which I argue constitutes not only a response to modern crisis in the form of a rupture but also an interesting node of historical and aesthetic continuity and transformation. Likewise, my reading contributes to the scholarship on Schopenhauer’s legacy and its role in shaping the aesthetic thought and fiction of the fin de siècle and the modernist period.
Download or read book On Beauty and Ambivalence written by Lauren Nuckols and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation seeks to engage in an ambivalent recovery of beauty. I will focus on human experiences of the beautiful and/or aesthetically admirable in relationship to ethical (or unethical) activities and habits, arguing, ultimately, for an ambivalent and perpetually critical relationship to beauty and ideals. In other words, this dissertation takes up the question of the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, drawing on American philosopher C.S. Peirce for a complex, non-reductive account of this relationship, and arguing for an ongoing sense of critical ambivalence towards all that is experienced or idealized as beautiful. I argue, with Elaine Scarry, that on the one hand, the experience of the beautiful, awe-inspiring, or inherently admirable is bound with a sense of ethical valuation, and can therefore be ethically motivating, promoting a sense of awe, respect, wonder, or care, an augmentation of sensitivity/perceptiveness, an impulse to creativity, and actions towards increasingly just social arrangements. On the other hand, as Scarry overlooks, experienced beauty does not always operate as an impetus to justice, but can become a powerful vehicle for oppression, manipulation, self-effacement, or for the creation and maintenance of unjust, oppressive, totalitarian, genocidal, and ecocidal social arrangements and regimes. In this dissertation I examine both sides of this debate, drawing on Peirce for a technical account of the interdependence of aesthetics, ethics, logic, and habit, and, finally, mobilize Hanna Segals psychoanalytic theory of ambivalence in order to advocate for a sense of critical, achieved ambivalence towards beauty/ideals.In sum, I do not advocate a fixed or determinate recovery of beauty that would, once and for all, discern those aspects of the beautiful aligned with ideals of truth and justice. Rather, I argue for a perpetual, ongoing sense of ambivalence towards, and ongoing critique of, those ideals and their experienced iterations that, even upon sustained critical reflection, stand out as beautiful and ethically admirable. The sense of ambivalence motivating ongoing critique is, in other words, a long-range project extending into the indefinite future, an ethical necessity as history unfolds into a future we cannot yet imagine.
Download or read book Surpassing Modernity written by Andrew McNamara and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic, Eurocentric or imperialistic-and a booming interest that is renewing the study of modernism. Another dilemma is that the urge to move away from, or beyond, modernity arises because it is viewed as difficult, even unsavoury. Yet, there has always been a view of modernity as somehow difficult to live with, and that has been said by figures we regard today as typical modernists. McNamara argues in this book that it is time to forget the quest to surpass modernity. Instead, we should re-examine a legacy that continues to inform our artistic conceptions, our political debates, our critical justifications, even if that legacy is baffling and contradictory. We may find it difficult to live with, but without recourse to this legacy, our critical-cultural ambitions would remain seriously diminished. How do we explain the culture we live in today? And how do we, as citizens, make sense of it? This book suggests these questions have become increasingly difficult to answer.
Download or read book Transculturation and Aesthetics written by and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural formations, and, with its heterogeneous author- and readership, enlists active participation by the individual. The volume focuses on the interplay between and lapses within interrelated domains of study – postcolonial, diaspora, and world-literary – which attend to the material and discursive circumstances of the literary work. The various readings argue for a situated mode of reading that attends to literary meaning emerging from transaction across, struggle between, and appropriation of cultures, both intra- and internationally, and, by definition, not tied exclusively to a colonial historical paradigm. The overarching themes – ambivalence, power, and literature – are approached transculturally and aesthetically with four distinct concerns in mind: theorization of transculturation; diaspora and migration; the African legacies of colonial slavery and its global aftermath; and localized topics that diversify the interpretation and definition of transculturation and its relation to an (emerging) aesthetic that goes beyond nationally constrained (geographical, cultural, linguistic, literary, etc.) boundaries. Themes range from literary representations of archaeological sites to the contest over meaning that follow efforts to exhume the past, from the ethics of queer love in diaspora to the effects of global literary marketing, from the development of transcultural identities in the colonial encounter to domestication and foreignization in the translation of Aboriginal texts. Authors discussed include Michael Ondaatje, Vernon Anderson, Barry Unsworth, Salman Rushdie, Yvonne Vera, Chiang Hsun, Sally Morgan, Doris Pilkington, Sarfraz Manzoor, Sathnam Sanghera, Yasmin Hai, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Timothy Wangusa, Fred D’Aguiar, Amitav Ghosh, and Jack Kerouac.
Download or read book Schaupl tze Der Ambivalenz Scenes of Ambivalences written by Matthias Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maternal Digital Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Interruption written by EL Putnam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select creative practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity. EL Putnam investigates how the digital performances of certain artists, creators, and technologists rupture existing representations of the maternal, taking advantage of the formal properties of digital media. What results are interruptions of visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technologies. Putnam bases her analysis on close examinations of the way certain makers use the formal properties of digital imagery, such as the gap, the glitch, and the lag, as means of rendering images of the maternal uncanny in order to challenge mediation, constituting an aesthetics of interruption. The result is a radical critical strategy for engaging with digital technology and subsequent understandings of the subject that defy current modes of assimilation.
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Ambivalence written by Brooks Landon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF in its provocative speculations on the future of such film. His study is really two books in one. The first part argues that most criticism of SF film has been inadequate because it is based on literary rather than film-specific standards. The second argues that SF film will soon become either obsolete or be totally transformed through new computer technology. What ties them together is the author's concern with what might be called the SF ethos or SF thinking, so that science fiction can be seen to encompass not only SF in print, film, TV and comic books, but has become all-pervasive in contemporary culture. At present, Landon argues that SF film may have exhausted itself as a genre but new electronic technology--computer animation, interactive narratives, and virtual reality--promises to radically transform SF film and possibly create a synthesis of the divergent trends of SF literature and film. Production technology has become the new story, one more interesting than the narrative it ostensibly supports. Landon believes we are at the threshold of a new age, similar to the pioneer years of filmmaking a hundred years ago.
Download or read book Ambivalence and Esthetic Judgment in Young Children written by Norman Harris and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ambivalence written by Hili Razinsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining Analytic and Continental approaches, this book provides a detailed analysis of mental ambivalence and its structures, forms and possibilities, in a philosophical context. The author explores ambivalence alongside issues relating to subjectivity, action and judgement, ..
Download or read book Network Aesthetics written by Patrick Jagoda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their world—and their view of themselves. Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up space for participatory and improvisational thought. Contributing to fields as diverse as literary criticism, digital studies, media theory, and American studies, Network Aesthetics brilliantly demonstrates that, in today’s world, networks are something that can not only be known, but also felt, inhabited, and, crucially, transformed.
Download or read book Jewish Diasporism written by Ranen Omer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tickled Underbelly Peter Greenaway and the Aesthetics of Ambivalence written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird Lullabies written by Betty Jay and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the mother-daughter relationship as it features in a number of films from the 1990s onwards. Bringing the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism to bear on a diverse and compelling range of representations of the mother-daughter dynamic, the author addresses a range of questions relating to the social, historical and cultural conditions which go to inform the female experience. These include, in relation to Dolores Claiborne, Heavenly Creatures and The Others, an exploration of different forms of familial violence and resistance to it and in One True Thing, Stepmom and Pieces of April, questions about the construction of the ideal mother and her loss. From The Piano's engagement with French feminism and Losing Chase's reworking of the life and work of Virginia Woolf to the depiction of cross-racial relationships during apartheid in Friends, the films that go to make up this study all share a central concern with both the literal and symbolic forms that the mother-daughter relationship encompasses.
Download or read book Distant Wars Visible written by Wendy Kozol and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or in critique of the nation at war. At the book’s center is what author Wendy Kozol calls an analytic of ambivalence—a critical approach to the tensions between spectacle and empathy provoked by gazing at military atrocities and trauma. Through this approach, Distant Wars Visible uses key concepts such as the politics of recoil, the notion of looking elsewhere, skeptical documents, and ethical spectatorship to examine multiple visual cultural practices depicting war, on and off the battlefield, from the 1999 NATO bombings in Kosovo to the present. Kozol’s analysis draws from collections of family photographs, human rights photography, independent film production, photojournalism, and other examples of war’s visual culture, as well as extensive visual evidence of the ways in which U.S. militarism operates to maintain geopolitical dominance—from Fallujah and Abu Ghraib to the most recent drone strikes in Pakistan. Throughout, Kozol reveals how factors such as gender, race, and sexuality construct competing visualizations of identity in a range of media from graphic narrative and film to conflict photography and battlefield souvenirs—and how contingencies and contradictions in visual culture shape the politics and ethics of witnessing.
Download or read book Strangers Ambivalence and Social Theory written by Bülent Diken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume dwells upon the socio-political problem of "under-representation" at great length within the context of immigration through analysis of Turkish immigrants within the "cosy" country of Denmark on the European Periphery. The main purpose has been to show the fictitious and constructed character of the identities that are normally presupposed and taken for granted. Bülent Diken attempts to "defamiliarize" the familiar notions of the "immigrant" and what is taken for granted in the field of immigration. To counter this, Diken allows the "immigrant" to speak throughout interviews. In addition, the study dwells on local and central state policies and planning. This requires a merger of social theory with research on immigration as well as (social and physical) planning, in this case in a Danish context with an examination on how the application of planning and urban politics are oriented toward immigrants. Together with an interest in political and discursive "strategies", the "tactics" used by immigrants in coping with these strategies are focused on at length.
Download or read book Ambivalence written by Hili Razinsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining Analytic and Continental approaches, this book provides a detailed analysis of mental ambivalence and its structures, forms and possibilities, in a philosophical context. The author explores ambivalence alongside issues relating to subjectivity, action and judgement, developing new and highly original accounts of these concepts.
