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  1. Theory of the Gimmick
    aesthetic judgment and capitalist form
    Author: Ngai, Sianne
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises of saving labor and increasing value that we distrust but also find attractive. Exploring the use of... more

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    Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises of saving labor and increasing value that we distrust but also find attractive. Exploring the use of this form, Ngai shows how its aesthetic dissatisfactions reflect deeper anxieties about capitalism

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674245365; 9780674245310; 9780674245341
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    Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; Aesthetics, Modern; Aesthetics, Modern; Aesthetics, Modern; Capitalism; Hoaxes; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Wirkung; Trick; Ästhetik; Marxismus; Kapitalismus
    Scope: 1 online resource (xi, 406 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)