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Anexact Form and Modernist Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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What happens to form in a time of random walks and Uncertainty Principles, self-organising plasma membranes and multivalent logics? And how might we better categorise the modernist avant-garde's confrontation with such complex and contradictory formalisms? Anexact Form and Modernist Culture presents a soft taxonomy of the long mid-century avant-garde's fuzzy, grey, and viscous forms while investigating the aesthetic and affective valences of that which is 'essentially and not accidentally inexact', as Edmund Husserl writes in Ideas I (1913). Across five chapters on doodles and inkblots; iridescent surfaces and the noise of becoming; the erratic cultural life of precision; the mesomorphic imagination of protoplasm; and the groovy aesthetics of industrial chemistry Anexact Form and Modernist Culture offers a unique examination of avant-garde art and literature in a time of unprecedented err, smudge, ooze and wriggle.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-31
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt617 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing
Antal sidor312
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399547499

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsGeneral Introduction: Here Comes EverythingPart I. The FuzzyIntroduction: Welcome to Errorland1. History of the Doodle: Pareidoliamania and the Cultural Logic of Squiggles and Inkblots2. The Iridescent: Seven Types of Colour-Writing, Poikilos-Mētis and the Surface of SurfacesPart II. The GreyIntroduction: Untitled3. After Exactitude: Idiometry and the Art of Mechanical PrecisionPart III. The ViscousIntroduction: Abscess Sky Index4. Plasmodial Form: Wortschleim and the Mesomorphic Imagination of Protoplasm5. Theory of the Groovy: Latex, Jelly, Nylon, RuthmosCoda: On Floating BodiesSelected BibliographyNotesIndex