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Big Culture : Toward an Aesthetics of Magnitude.

De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wittenberg, David.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Aesthetics.
Scale (Philosophy).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Summary:
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Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
One Fear of Bigness
Two Postulates of an Aesthetics of Magnitude
Taxidermy
What Is Big Is Too Big
What Is Big Is Small
Uncompromising Bulk
Three Unsublimity: The Atomic Bomb
The Bomb Is Too Big
Middle Distance
The Sublime
The Bomb Is (Too) Small
Marketable Euphemism
Four Antinomy of an Aesthetics of Magnitude
Could Be Bigger
Size Is Relative
Size Is Absolute
Five Hyperfacticity: The Big-Budget Film
Waste
Monster
Toy
Scale Is a Euphemism About Size
Six Macrophilia: The Bigness of the Body
Microscopical Vision
Our Ravish’d Eyes
Seven Racism: The Bigness of Michael Brown
Hulk Hogan Generated by AI.
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ISBN:
0-226-84291-6
OCLC:
1530512365

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