Disformations : affects, media, literature / Tomáš Jirsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jirsa, Tomáš, 1983- author.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

Thinking media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Form (Philosophy) in art.

Form (Philosophy) in literature.

Form (Philosophy).

Affect (Psychology) in art.

Affect (Psychology) in literature.

Affect (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"Explores the theoretically fertile concept of the formless as articulated by modern literature and visual arts, and argues that instead of an elimination of form the formless stands for an affective operation based on both aesthetically and speculative generative deformation of forms"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

When Forms Fall Apart: An Introduction

Facing the Faceless: Modernism, War, and the Work of Disfiguration

Curves that Break the Frame: On the Relentless Absorption of the Wallpaper Pattern

How Text Becomes Diatext: Gemini and Performativity of the Garbage Dump

The Portrait of Absence, or, When the Empty Chairs Get Crowded

Coda: Affective Compounds Make a Media Excess.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781501362316

1501362313

9781501362330

150136233X

9781501362323

1501362321

OCLC:

1238133796