Stuff theory : everyday objects, radical materialism /: everyday objects, radical materialism. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maurizia Boscagli.
• Authors: Boscagli, Maurizia
• Contents: Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Introduction Of Jena Glassware and Potatoes: Matter in the Moment; I. Critical Stuff; II. Object, Thing, Hybrid: The Case of the New Materialisms; III. Tchotchke Overflow: Materiality in theTwentieth Century; 1 Homeopathic Benjamin: A Flexible Poetics of Matter; I. Homeopathic Fetishism; II. Fetishism, Contradiction, and the Desiring Subject: The Problem of Gender; III. The Erotics of the Encounter: Hysterical Contact and the Ascetic Swerve; IV. Modernist Gender, Modernist Objects. V. The Striking of the Match: Benjamin on Fire2 For the Unnatural Use of Clothes: Fashion as Cultural Assault; I. Spectacle, Aura, Fashion; II. What Gerty Knew (or, Philosophy in the Outhouse); III. Fashion, Tactility, and the "Carnal Density of the Image"; IV. Love in Vienna; V. Ornamentality (is an Austrian Thing); VI. Glum Glam; VII. Sadomasochism, Television, Script; 3 Paris circa 1968: Cool Space, Decoration, Revolution; I. Paris Circa 1958; II. Materiality and Modernization I: Roland Barthes' Rib; III. Materiality and Modernization II: Jean Baudrillard. IV. Materiality and Modernization III: Guy DebordV. Modernism, Function, and the High Fordist Unmodern; VI. Jacques Tati, the Door Handle, and the Film of Glass Architecture; VII. "Tiny Little Things, Tiny Little Bits of Happiness": Décor and Desire in Georges Perec's Les Choses; VIII. Clutter, Sex, and Revolution: Unhomely Objects in Bertolucci's The Dreamers; 4 "You Must Remember This": Memory Objects in the Age of Erasable Memory; I. Modern Amnesia; II. Bodies without Objects: Benjamin's Proust (or Teatime in the Land of the Real). III. Objects without Bodies: Your Clothes WhenYou Are Not ThereIV. War Memorabilia; V. The Present as Future Past: Time Capsules; VI. One Hundred Objects to Represent the World; 5 Garbage in Theory: Waste Aesthetics; I. The Beauty of Trash; II. The Opposite of Junk: Rem Koolhaas' Viscous Modernity; III. Extreme Recycling: The Plastic Bag as Portent; IV. Of Sprouted Potatoes and Other Trouvailles : The Politics of Gleaning; Envoi: What Should We Do with Our Stuff?; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 801; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Material culture in literature; Personal belongings in literature; Personal belongings in art; Property in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory; Material culture in literature; Personal belongings in art; Personal belongings in literature; PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics; Property in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory; PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics; Material culture in literature; Personal belongings in art; Personal belongings in literature; Property in literature; Philosophy -- Metaphysics; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623560577; 1623560578; 9781623566302; 1623566304
• Related ISBNs: 9781623562687; 1623562686; 9781623562250; 1623562252
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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