{"product_id":"crisis-style-the-aesthetics-of-repair-paperback-softback-9781503629554","title":"Crisis Style; The Aesthetics of Repair (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503629554","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCrisis Style\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Aesthetics of Repair\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Dango (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503629554\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 20 halftones, 5 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.471 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Since reading this, I've been recommending it far and wide. Its powerful constellation of key terms brilliantly captures the major aesthetic impulses of our moment. A real achievement.\"—Caroline Levine, Cornell University \"Can art heal the world?\u003ci\u003eCrisis Style\u003c\/i\u003e's wonderful wager is that it surely tries. The book's aesthetic categories are irrepressibly illuminating: you can't unsee them!\"—Anna Kornbluh, University of Illinois, Chicago \"Across incisive and thought-provoking readings, Dango elaborates a significant new approach to contemporary aesthetic theory and cultural studies.\"—Margaret Ronda, University of California, Davis \"This is literary criticism as cartography, and it is politically potent. Against the hoary notion of a humanist as a critic who stands outside of consumer culture to reach something loftier, the promiscuous critic knows what it's like to get lost on the internet. And we're learning how to theorize that experience of disorientation.... By reading for style with Michael Dango, we can chart a more meaningful path through a world that's full of it.\"—Gloria Fisk, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis—and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, bingeing, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come to define how people deal with the stress of living in a world that seems in permanent crisis. As Dango argues, they can also be used to describe contemporary art and literature. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmploying what he calls \"promiscuous archives,\" Dango traverses media and re-shuffles literary and art historical genealogies to make his case. The book discusses social media filters alongside the minimalism of Donald Judd and La Monte Young and the television shows \u003ci\u003eThe West Wing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrue Detective\u003c\/i\u003e. It reflects on the modernist cuisine of Ferran Adrià and the fashion design of Issey Miyake. And, it dissects writing by Barbara Browning, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Mark Danielewski, Jennifer Egan, Tao Lin, David Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Robison, and Zadie Smith. Unpacking how the styles of these works detox, filter, binge, or ghost their worlds, \u003ci\u003eCrisis Style\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a taxonomy of contemporary cultural production and a theorization of action in a world always in need of repair. Ultimately, Dango presents a compelling argument for why we need aesthetic theory to understand what we're doing in our world today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Styles of Repair\u003cbr\u003e  2. Detox\u003cbr\u003e  3. Filter\u003cbr\u003e  4. Binge\u003cbr\u003e  5. Ghost\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword: On Ambivalence and Promiscuous Archives\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676821221656,"sku":"9781503629554","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/crisis-style-the-aesthetics-of-repair-paperback-softback-9781503629554","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}