Disformations Affects, Media, Literature

Summary: "Explores the theoretically fertile concept of the formless as articulated by modern literature and visual arts, and argues that instead of an elimination of form the formless stands for an affective operation based on both aesthetically and speculative generative deformation of forms"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781501362323
ISBN: 1501362321
Physical Description: 1 online resource (169 p.).
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electronic resource
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	When Forms Fall Apart: An Introduction -- Facing the Faceless: Modernism, War, and the Work of Disfiguration -- Curves that Break the Frame: On the Relentless Absorption of the Wallpaper Pattern -- How Text Becomes Diatext: Gemini and Performativity of the Garbage Dump -- The Portrait of Absence, or, When the Empty Chairs Get Crowded -- Coda: Affective Compounds Make a Media Excess.