Bøger af Sianne Ngai

Det gakkede, det nuttede og det interessante gennemstrømmer den postmoderne kultur. Kategorierne dominerer vor tids kunst og forbrugsvarer såvel som den måde, vi taler om de ambivalente følelser, kulturen afføder.I Vores æstetiske kategorier udfolder Sianne Ngai en teori om de æstetiske kategorier, vi bruger til at bearbejde den hyperkommercialiserede, massemedierede og performancedrevne senkapitalistiske verden – og hun gør det med samme seriøsitet, som filosoffer tidligere har viet analyser af det skønne og det sublime. Sianne Ngai (f. 1971) er professor i engelsk ved University of Chicago og forfatter til adskillige bøger. Med Vores æstetiske kategorier udkommer hun for første gang på dansk.Bibliotek for ny kunstteori er en række oversættelser af international kunst- og kulturteori. Projektet er et samarbejde mellem Ny Carlsbergfondet og Informations Forlag.

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 ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.

A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category--the cute--on postwar and contemporary art. 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 explores the ramifications of an aesthetic "of" or "about" minorness--or what is perceived to be diminutive, subordinate, and above all, unthreatening--on the shifting forms and contents of art today. This anthology is the first of its kind to show how contemporary artists have worked on and transformed the cute, in ways that not only complexify its meaning, but also reshape their own artistic practices. Artists surveyed include>Writers include Sasha Archibald, Roland Barthes, Leigh Claire La Berge, Lauren Berlant, Ian Bogost, Jennifer Doyle, Lee Edelman, Adrienne Edwards, Lewis Gordon, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Stephen Jay Gould, Lori Merish, John Morreall, Juliane Rebentisch, Frances Richard, Carrie Rickey, Friedrich Schiller, Peter Schjeldahl, Kanako Shiokawa, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Kevin Young

Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature-with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race-but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.