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Theory of the Gimmick - Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Paperback)
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Theory of the Gimmick - Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Paperback)
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Christian Gauss Award Shortlist Winner of the ASAP Book Prize A
Literary Hub Book of the Year "Makes the case that the gimmick...is
of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical
theory and Sontag's best work." -Los Angeles Review of Books "Ngai
exposes capitalism's tricks in her mind-blowing study of the time-
and labor-saving devices we call gimmicks." -New Statesman "One of
the most creative humanities scholars working today...My god, it's
so good." -Literary Hub "Ngai is a keen analyst of overlooked or
denigrated categories in art and life...Highly original." -4Columns
"It is undeniable that part of what makes Ngai's analyses of
aesthetic categories so appealing...is simply her capacity to speak
about them brilliantly." -Bookforum "A page turner." -American
Literary History Deeply objectionable and yet strangely attractive,
the gimmick comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial
strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed
theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working
too little (a labor-saving trick) and working too hard (a strained
effort to get our attention). When we call something a gimmick, we
register misgivings that suggest broader anxieties about value,
money, and time, making the gimmick a hallmark of capitalism. With
wit and critical precision, Ngai explores the extravagantly
impoverished gimmick across a range of examples: the fiction of
Thomas Mann, Helen DeWitt, and Henry James; the video art of Stan
Douglas; the theoretical writings of Stanley Cavell and Theodor
Adorno. Despite its status as cheap and compromised, the gimmick
emerges as a surprisingly powerful tool in this formidable
contribution to aesthetic theory.
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