||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Tamara|Great!|5 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Reinterprets the present|By Caroline Durlacher|Ngai reinterprets the present through the lens of the zany, the cute, and the interesting. I feel like I've seen anew the TV, jokes, art, books, clothes, technology, etc. that I've been living with. Re||[Ngai's] wide-ranging, synthetic approach is exactly the kind of criticism our ever-accreting culture deserves, and maybe even the criticism we need. By indexing the kinds of feeling-based judgments we make in our daily lives, Ngai opens up questions about ho
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting | Sianne Ngai. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
