... melodrama aesthetic life Alfred Hitchcock Patricia Highsmith ...

... Suspense Anthropotechnics Social Systems Patricia Highsmith Henry James Peter Sloterdijk Professionalism ...

... Patricia Highsmith Friedrich Carl von Savigny Vicarious Life Fictitious persons Vicarious crime ...

... The Incrementalist Turn The Turn Turn Game Theory Erving Goffman Patricia Highsmith Georg Simmel ...

... Scientology Institutional Space Motion Pictures Twitter Stupidity Patricia Highsmith J. G. Ballard Alfred Hitchcock ...

... Social games Game Theory Anime Patricia Highsmith William Dean Howells Theodore Dreiser Thomas Demand ...

... Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy Siegfried Kracauer ...

... The chapter demonstrates how the space and practices of the office--its operations, observations, and ego-technic media—become the switchboard of a self-organizing social order of things. Examples are drawn from the fiction of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Max Brooks ( World War Z...

... Highsmith Henry James Peter Sloterdijk Professionalism The chapter demonstrates how the space and practices of the office--its operations, observations, and ego-technic media—become the switchboard of a self-organizing social order of things. Examples are drawn from the fiction of Patricia...

... capsules, high-rises, concrete islands, institutional settings for the self-enhanced—the sites in Patricia Highsmith Friedrich Carl von Savigny Vicarious Life Fictitious persons Vicarious crime The scene of the crime in the age of social systems and crime fiction are shown to test out...

... on a Train (based on a Patricia Highsmith novel), where music fills the fairground scene of murder. This possibility manifests itself as a music that never stops, and thereby suggests something else that accompanies the constraints of life and its impossible, mortal plots. The chapter also discusses...

... is a concert pianist, and in Strangers on a Train (based on a Patricia Highsmith novel), where music fills the fairground scene of murder. This possibility manifests itself as a music that never stops, and thereby suggests something else that accompanies the constraints of life and its impossible, mortal plots...

.... Via crime stories and crime films, and belief systems such as Scientology, this part details the medium of suspense as a worldview—focusing on one the suspense novel’s great practitioners, Patricia Highsmith, and on one of the suspense motion picture’s great strategists, Alfred Hitchcock. A central...

... as a way of modeling modernity and as one of its symptoms. The relays between game and world in the official world is examined in several different scenes, including Patricia Highsmith’s suspense novel Ripley’s Game , anime-based film, and a range of realist fiction (William Dean Howells, Theodore...

... systems, what they look like, and how they work. Game theory is examined as a way of modeling modernity and as one of its symptoms. The relays between game and world in the official world is examined in several different scenes, including Patricia Highsmith’s suspense novel Ripley’s Game , anime-based...

... principle and stress an aesthetic category. It defines a modern anthropotechnics, or art with humans. It redefines the action zones of a modern world that stages its own conditions and the place of the work of art in it. Suspense Anthropotechnics Social Systems Patricia Highsmith Henry James...

... in Patricia Highsmith Friedrich Carl von Savigny Vicarious Life Fictitious persons Vicarious crime ...

... extraverted and suspended life-world in which people meet outside themselves. The Incrementalist Turn The Turn Turn Game Theory Erving Goffman Patricia Highsmith Georg Simmel ...

... behavior” in a radically extraverted and suspended life-world in which people meet outside themselves. The Incrementalist Turn The Turn Turn Game Theory Erving Goffman Patricia Highsmith Georg Simmel The final chapter of the book is a postscript on the official world. The notion...