Cloneliness : on the reproduction of loneliness / Michael O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loneliness in literature.

Individualism.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities. Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining early 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context of more recent global expressions grounded in social networks, virtual reality, the biopolitical commons, academic credentialisation and such practices as Hikikomori. It reads many of these newer forms of loneliness through recent artistic explorations of loneliness in literature, photography and visual art, but also looks at classic works such as Frank O'Connor's The Lonely Voice and Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. Michael O'Sullivan argues that cloneliness as an institutional practice of reproduction in society nurtures, normalises and reproduces loneliness in order to create subjects who are more willing to accept ideologies of competition, "extreme individualism" and compulsive networking"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Cloneliness and radical embodied loneliness

Loneliness as method : Henry James and the "essential loneliness" of art practice

How do we live "alone together"? The "lonely voice" and the "submerged population" in O'Connor, Joyce and Mansfield

Loneliness is part of the job : The "sentimental loneliness" of Carson McCullers and Richard Yates

Beating academic loneliness and surviving boredom in David Foster Wallace

Loneliness in a selection of Japanese philosophy and fiction : Takeo Doi, Natsume Soseki, Kitaro Nishida, Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata

Filial piety and loneliness in a selection of Chinese novels : Cao Xueqin, Mo Yan, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin, Yiyun Li

"I am trash" : Is student stress and self-stratification creating a generation of "interconnected loners"? / with Mak Ka Yu]

Coda: Songs of Loneliness: "there is no escape from loneliness except in yourself".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- Cloneliness

ISBN:

9781501344824

150134482X

OCLC:

1074378138