In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity 9780773587335

A speculative exploration of theory, subjectivity and art in an age of uncertainty.

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English Pages 248 [249] Year 2012

In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity
9780773587335

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Ted Hiebert

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: Technologies of Disappearance
1 Willful Alienation
2 Prosthetic Phenomenology
3 Vacuous Being
Part Two: Technologies of Ironic Appearance
4 Playing Dead
5 Fantasies of Trauma
6 Perspectival Roadkill
Part Three: Technologies of Nonsense
7 Becoming-Rorschach
8 Photographing Vampires
9 Metaphysical Laziness
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
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