In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows
how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the
social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's
predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality
that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world
that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions.
Employing the social theories of Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman,
Niklas Luhmann, and Peter Sloterdijk, Seltzer shows how suspense
novels, films, and performance art by Patricia Highsmith, Tom
McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and
others outline how we currently live and reveal the stress-points
and mood-systems of the modern epoch. In its focus on social games,
depictions of violent and explosive persons, along with its cast of
artists, reporters, detectives, and others who observe and report
and reenact, the suspense mode creates and recreates modern systems
of action and autonomy, and defines the self-turned world's
practices and aesthetics. By epitomizing a reflexive,
self-legislating, and autonomous world, a suspense art with humans
in the systems epoch provides the models and sets the rules for our
modern, official world.
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