What is truth in the postmodern age? The artistic generation of the twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. This title explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience. Mobilizing an array of scholars and contemporary artists, this study examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Speculative, critical, and always creative in its approach, In Praise of Nonsense focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 149/.97
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773539730 9780773587335
- LCCN
- BH301.P69
- LCCN Item number
- H53 2012eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 236 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00230665 (OCoLC)811411372 (CaOOCEL)443426
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Preface 16
- Part One: Technologies of Disappearance 26
- 1 Willful Alienation 33
- 2 Prosthetic Phenomenology 50
- 3 Vacuous Being 66
- Part Two: Technologies of Ironic Appearance 82
- 4 Playing Dead 90
- 5 Fantasies of Trauma 105
- 6 Perspectival Roadkill 123
- Part Three: Technologies of Nonsense 144
- 7 Becoming-Rorschach 153
- 8 Photographing Vampires 175
- 9 Metaphysical Laziness 199
- Postscript 219
- Notes 228
- Bibliography 238
- Index 246
- A 246
- B 246
- C 246
- D 246
- E 247
- F 247
- G 247
- H 247
- I 247
- J 248
- K 248
- L 248
- M 248
- N 248
- O 248
- P 248
- R 249
- S 249
- T 249
- U 249
- V 249
- W 249
- X 249
- Z 249
