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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 155–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...—the field of aesthetics. This essay considers Harun Farocki's installation Serious Games as an index into the emergence of a newfangled military aesthetic regime. Charting the institutional collaborations between the military and the creative industries in the twenty-first century, the essay examines what...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 February 2018
... John . 2007 . Mobilities . Cambridge : Polity . Things Unexploded: The Calculus and Aesthetics of Risk in Two Post-­Boom Irish Novels Mary McGlynn The opening of Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic downplays human agency...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 February 2017
... University Press 2017 Bernard Stiegler Michel Foucault mystagogy aesthetics of existence care References Auroux Sylvain . 1993 . La Révolution technologique de la grammatization . Liège : Mardaga . Cohen Ed. 2014 . “Live Thinking, or, The Psychagogy of Michel Foucault...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 149–172.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Fang-chih Irene Yang Chinese Drama, a new genre produced for the Chinese language market (with China as the center), while rhetorically legitimized through Taiwanese economic nationalism, has to negotiate the divisions between Chineseness and Taiwaneseness aesthetically, expressed through...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 157–179.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Ryan Bishop; John Phillips Duke University Press 2002 Sighted Weapons and Modernist Opacity: Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics Ryan Bishop and John Phillips If I had to sum up current thinking on precision missiles and satura- tion...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 157–184.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Russ Castronovo Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 161 of 252 6943 boundar Geo-Aesthetics: Fascism, Globalism, and Frank Norris Russ Castronovo...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Clair Wills Duke University Press 2004 The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War Clair Wills The neutral island facing the Atlantic, The neutral island in the heart of man, Are bitterly...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 197–205.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Aesthetics of Minor Affects”: The Other Modernity Daniel T. O’Hara I take the quotation in my title from the last sentence of Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings. It declares...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 89–111.
Published: 01 August 2024
... through the intellect, and the explanation of thoughts through aesthetics.” For us, poetry is the problem of having faith in language, and it is also a path of enduring “the wasteland reaction” [allowing us] to distrust hopelessness, confusion, and illusion . . .  (Ayukawa 1974 : 487...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 123–150.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Q. S. Tong Q. S. Tong 2006 The Aesthetic of Imperial Ruins: The Elgins and John Bowring Q. S. Tong All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. —Walter Benjamin, ‘‘The Work of Art in the Age...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 61–91.
Published: 01 May 2023
... positively modeled the dispersed, unwilled—in a word, spontaneous—conception of social order that simultaneously came to theoretical expression in the work of neoliberal intellectuals. This essay offers new insight into the formal unity between spontaneous aesthetics and the neoliberal account of the order...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 57–73.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Martin Ryle In making aesthetic performance and aesthetic education central to his dialectical evaluation of social democracy, Kazuo Ishiguro especially addresses teachers of culture. The Unconsoled and Never Let Me Go explore the position of art in European social-democratic society since 1945...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 163–183.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., “nothingness” in Bernstein's poetics is endowed with profound poetic and aesthetic implications. Bernstein studied the works of Zen-Taoist philosophy in his early years. Understanding the Zen-Taoist connotations of “nothingness” is an important new dimension in interpreting Bernstein's echopoetics. Bernstein...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 129–137.
Published: 01 November 2021
...—power from the fact that “it is ceaselessly creating a scale of values ‘that is not of this world.’” One way it does that is by intensifying the experience of reading. Placing his recent poetics under the aegis of Poe, Bernstein has managed to balance poetry's social and aesthetic functions...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 101–137.
Published: 01 August 2013
... from notions of ideology. This emergence testifies to the transformed role of the state in a globalized capital formation and the occurrence of two paradigm shifts: from the narrative to the visual, and from the image’s dominance of aesthetic representation to its dominance by global capital...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Harry Garuba This essay attempts to locate the work of the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah within a tradition of African and postcolonial critical thought that privileges “teacherliness” as a measure of value and significance in its discourse and as an aesthetic principle in literary texts...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and the Dreyfus Affair but downplays the political implications of Proust’s aesthetics. Her focus on psychoanalysis leads her incorrectly to interpret his lucidity about Marcel’s cruelty as latent repudiation. Prendergast invokes nation and citizenship in his analysis of Proustian skepticism but largely neglects...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 187–202.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Brian Elliott This essay argues that the key to Benjamin’s political thought lies in his appreciation of aesthetic production. Avoiding both uncritical celebration and fatalistic condemnation of the role played by modern technologies within production, Benjamin articulates a nuanced interpretation...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Stephen Barker The implications of Bernard Stiegler's critique of the amateur are far-reaching for art, aesthetics, and critical thought. In the three lectures on aesthetics published in this special issue, Stiegler explores those implications and their relation to the amare —the loving...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 125–147.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Alexander R. Galloway; Jason R. LaRivière This essay superimposes technical definitions of data compression onto philosophical discussions of aesthetics. Two basic approaches are addressed: abstract compression and generic compression. The first, outlined well in the work of Bernard Stiegler...