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Stupid Humanism - Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-First-Century Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Stupid Humanism - Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-First-Century Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
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This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances
of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical
experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any
historical overview of humanism will associate it with
copia-abundance of expression-and the rhetorical practices
essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and
is a synonym for copia, making the humanism of which copia is a
central element an inherently stupid philosophy. A transhistorical
exploration of stupidity demonstrates that not only is excess still
the surest way to eloquence, but it is also just the kind of
spammy, speculative undertaking to generate a more generous and
inventive comprehension of human and nonhuman relationships. In
chapters exploring the rhetorics of memes, attack ads, public
shaming blogs, clickbait and gifs, Stupid Humanism outlines the
possibilities for a humanism less invested in the normative logics
that enshrine knowledge, eloquence and linear development as the
chief indicators of an active, articulated selfhood and more
supportive of a program for queer knowledge, trivial pursuits,
anti-social ethics and the curious relationships that form around
and in response to abundance of expression.
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