...Annie Dorsen Annie Dorsen discusses the concept of the digital sublime and how it informed the creation of her work The Great Outdoors (2017). The Internet, in its scale and scope, and information itself has become a sublime landscape for contemplation, albeit more of a “stuplimity,” as Sianne Ngai...

... Sphere: The Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena (New York: Routledge, 2012). 2. Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai, Comedy Has Issues, Critical Inquiry 43, no. 2 (2017): 233 49. 3. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass...

... one undergoes when faced with a dilemma: the twenty-f­irst century s inscrutable blend of social, political, individual, and aesthetic experience detached from moral, ethical, rational, or dramatic constraints. Sianne Ngai locates the emergence of ugly feelings in the very effort of thinking...