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What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi
fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies,
D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up?
And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the
contemporary United States? With #GamerGate in the national news,
shows like The Big Bang Theory on ever-increasing numbers of
screens, and Peter Orzsag and Paul Ryan on magazine covers, it is
clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major
role in today's popular culture in America. The Year's Work in
Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual
history to explore their influence on contemporary American
intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how
individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual
endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many
models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge
production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers,
researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for
mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of
intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found
ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or
contempt.
The Wallflower Avant-Garde argues for the importance of a strain of
modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of
the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of
wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrastic writing also
involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense
of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This
choreography of imitation and autonomy resonates with many of the
foundational insights of queer theory: the way it situates identity
as an effect of performativity, artifice, and mimesis. Unlike many
queer theorists, however, this book insists that we value both the
imitations and the aspirations that guide them, underlining not
only the illusoriness of identity but also its allure. This more
capacious formalism allows aspects of modernists aesthetic that
have seemed regressive or repressive to be read as generative forms
of stasis, quiet, reserve, shyness, and so on.
What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi
fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies,
D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up?
And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the
contemporary United States? With #GamerGate in the national news,
shows like The Big Bang Theory on ever-increasing numbers of
screens, and Peter Orzsag and Paul Ryan on magazine covers, it is
clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major
role in today's popular culture in America. The Year's Work in
Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual
history to explore their influence on contemporary American
intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how
individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual
endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many
models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge
production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers,
researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for
mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of
intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found
ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or
contempt.
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