Microdystopias - Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment (Hardcover)

This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday-of microdystopias-and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contract to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to concrete places and games, the contributors in Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment sound the depths of an existential sense of shrinking horizons - spatially, temporally, emotionally, and politically. The everyday encroachment on our sense of spatial orientation that gradually and discreetly shrinks the horizons of possibilities is demonstrated by examining what the form of the microdystopic look like when they are aesthetically configured. Contributors analyze the aesthetics that play a particularly central and complex role in mediating, as well as disrupting, the parameters of dystopian emergences and emergencies, reflecting an increasingly uneasy relationship between the fictional, the cautionary, and the real. Scholars of media studies, sociology, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2022
Editors:	Asbjorn Gronstad • Lene M. Johannessen
Contributors:	Janne Stigen Drangsholt • Asbjorn Gronstad • Henrik Gustafsson • Lene M. Johannessen • Anders Lysne • Holger Poetzsch • Michael J. Prince • Knut Rio
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-1-66692-942-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > General Promotions
LSN:	1-66692-942-5
Barcode:	9781666929423

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