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Disformations

Affects, Media, Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvTomáš Jirsa,Bernd Herzogenrath

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What happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural affect theory, media philosophy, and literary studies, Tomáš Jirsa explores how specific affective operations disrupt form only to generate new formations. To demonstrate the importance of the structural work of mutually interacting affects, Disformations provides close readings of four intermedia figures stretched out across modernist fictions, contemporary video art, and posthuman visual experiments—the faceless face, the wallpaper pattern, the garbage dump, and the empty chair. Analyzing a wide range of texts, images, and audiovisual works, from Vincent van Gogh and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Rainer Maria Rilke, Gaston Leroux, and Richard Weiner, to Francis Bacon, Michel Tournier, Ingmar Bergman, Eugène Ionesco, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Kosuth, and Jan Šerých, this book opens up a new avenue for addressing how aesthetic forms desubjectify affects to mobilize their mediality and performative qualities. Jirsa’s innovative theoretical framework and incisive readings offer a fresh inquiry into how artistic media produce their own figural thinking and in so doing compel us to think with them anew.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-11
Mått148 x 218 x 16 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThinking Media
Antal sidor168
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501362347

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Tomáš Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Interested in relations between literature and the visual arts, affect studies, and music video, he recently co-edited (with Ernst van Alphen) How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices (2019). In 2015 and 2017, he was awarded a fellowship from IKKM in Weimar; in 2019, he was Visiting Scholar at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsWhen Forms Fall Apart: An IntroductionDisformations Open Form to New FormationsFormal Disturbances Are Grounded in the Affective Operations that Rewrite FormAesthetic Forms Think with and through Intermedia FiguresChapter 1Facing the Faceless: Modernism, War, and the Work of DisfigurationShattering the Face in ModernismToward the Affective Work of the FormlessInflicting Wounds upon Language: Gueules Cassées Rewriting the Faceless ExperienceChapter 2 Curves that Break the Frame: On the Relentless Absorption of the Wallpaper PatternNabokov’s Unruly Geometry of WallpaperRococo, or the Broken FrameBoredom, Fascination, and the Screen of HallucinationFor a Morphological Reading of Gilman’s WallpaperBetween Excess and Absence: The Patterns of MadnessChapter 3 How Text Becomes Diatext: Gemini and Performativity of the Garbage DumpSpeaking for Rubbish: Tournier’s Dandy Garbage Man versus Waste StudiesThe Media Archaeology of GarbageReading a Figure, Trashing the SubjectFrom Metatext to DiatextChapter 4 The Portrait of Absence, or When the Empty Chairs Get CrowdedChairs without Sitters: Weiner, Kosuth, and the Missing SubjectTracing the Present Absence with Van Gogh, Derrida, and NancyChairing Not Sharing, Shifting Not Sitting: A Media Swap in Ionesco’s The ChairsDecentered, Not VanishedCoda: Affective Compounds Make a Media ExcessNotesBibliographyIndex