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Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature: Thinking Media

Autor Dr. Tomáš Jirsa
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2022
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, Tomás 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 Serých, 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501374890
ISBN-10: 1501374893
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 19 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Thinking Media

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The major concept of the formless is discussed within the rich and contemporary theoretical framework including cultural affect studies, visual studies, media philosophy, literary theory, and psychoanalysis

Notă biografică

Tomás 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.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

Through a series of intriguing examples from literature, cinema, and contemporary arts, Jirsa's book takes readers on a delightful cross-disciplinary journey into affectively driven generative deformations. Passionate and erudite, Disformations's claim about the performative force of affects will be much debated in the contemporary media theory.
In this astonishingly inventive and wide-ranging book, Jirsa expertly traverses the domains of literature, painting, cinema, and video art for figures that push the formal limits of representation-the face destroyed by war, wallpaper patterns, the garbage dump, the empty chair-and thus reveal the dynamic force of affect at work in the secret heart of all formation. Arriving in the turbulent wake of the so-called affective and formal turns, Jirsa's media-philosophical concept of disformation brilliantly shows us a new way through the all-too familiar impasses of both. This book should be read by anyone interested in thinking deeply about the affective operations of form in our contemporary mediated moment.
The central project of Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature is to reactivate the vital question of the affective operations of aesthetic objects. Through close readings of a range of fascinating figures-from empty chairs to wallpaper patterns-Jirsa insists on treating representational limits neither as ineffable nor as deficient, but instead as generative processes that expose the speculative potential of disturbances to form.
Disformations is admirable for its erudite close readings and unexpected comparisons that illuminate one another in a manner likely to engage both specialized and nonspecialized readers with different degrees of familiarity with literary and media studies, art history, and cinema.