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In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions. Employing the social theories of Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, and Peter Sloterdijk, Seltzer shows how suspense novels, films, and performance art by Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others outline how we currently live and reveal the stress-points and mood-systems of the modern epoch. In its focus on social games, depictions of violent and explosive persons, along with its cast of artists, reporters, detectives, and others who observe and report and reenact, the suspense mode creates and recreates modern systems of action and autonomy, and defines the self-turned world's practices and aesthetics. By epitomizing a reflexive, self-legislating, and autonomous world, a suspense art with humans in the systems epoch provides the models and sets the rules for our modern, official world.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	31 mars 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822374459
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	17 Mo

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à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--Pûçàô Dàà Śézé, Mà, [àé] àûô. hé ôIçà ô / Mà Śézé. àéŝ ç çûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. îsbn 978-0-8223-6086-5 (àçôé : à. àé) îsbn 978-0-8223-6100-8 (. : à. àé) îsbn 978-0-8223-7445-9 (é-ôô) 1. Śûŝéŝé içô—ŝô à ççŝ. 2. Çé  ôûà çûûé. 3. Çé  àŝŝ éà. 4. éàûé à ŝôçé. . é. pn3448.s86s45 2016 809.3'872—ç23 2015031594

Çôé à: àôô ààà,Aŝôûé Héké, 2012. Ś àé ô é éôàçé. Çôûéŝ ô é àŝ.

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Chapter 1. Introductîon to the Oficîal World hé Péŝéŝ ô é OIçà Wô Śûŝéééŝŝ hé ûà Pà Dŝô à Śé-Bôôŝéŝ àŝ Wôé: Pàéàç Śçéçé ŝôôàŝ ŝ’ŝ Pàôàéŝ

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Chapter 2. Brecht’s Rabbît: The Anthropotechnîcs of Suspense hé Pôŝûà Pà ïNS ïRS hé Ûçà Vàé Çôà: hé ôà Çà

PA RT II.C H A IN A N D C A R O U S E L S S TAT IO N A RY L E T T E R S : The Ego-Technîc Medîa of the Oficîa Word

Chapter 3. “The Proper Study of Interactîon” Vçàôûŝ é Vçàôûŝ Çé

Chapter 4. Chaîn Letters OIçà é hé Āûôôç Môé: Dçàôé, Āŝé Màçé, é Wéç Oû ûŝé: “ô Déŝé é Méàŝ ô Déŝô é Wô Wé à” hé à, é Çàôûŝé, à é Môéŝ

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PA RT III.G A M E S ” :“ S O C IA L Payîng Our Part în the Systems Epoch

Chapter 5. Parlor Games hé OIçé à é àôàô Pàô Gàéŝ hé ûéŝ ô ééàçé hé Śçôà ô é Śôçà hé Śŝéŝ û: Ā à Āôôéççŝ

Chapter 6. The Natural Hîstory of Artîicîal Lîfe é û Wàé Śéçûé Eûçàô “Śé  é Oûŝé Wô”: Ā  ûàŝ Névé é Mé Gô

PA RT IV.W O R L D S :S U S P E N D E D Men în Sef-Curved Space

Chapter 7. The Wall of the World “Ā Śôçàzé àçé”: hé Pàççà Jôé hé Çŝà Wô ô Wééŝ: Çŝé’ŝMûé ô é Oé Exéŝŝ hé Péà-Śàé Mà

Chapter 8. Marchîng în Fîles ééàé ééà:Aôé w Déà ééà ééà:Réàé

PA RT V:F R O M T H E O U T S ID EN E W S

Chapter 9. The Turn Turn Āà hé çééàŝ û Pà Śôçé Pà Déà OIçàŝ

Chapter 10. A Postscrîpt on the Oficîal World hé Āûôôzàô ô Eé Oûŝé é OIçà Wô Oûŝé ô Eé “hé Pôôçàô ô é Oûŝé”: “hé Vàŝé Āé ô Śàçé” hé Āàô à é Āàŝ: àûŝàà’ŝMé Kà

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“Śûéà ŝ, àTé à, à àé é ô,” é ôô éé é Çé Bàé ôéŝ  ŝ ôûçô ô é Gàà’ŝ àç ôéhé Dô’ŝ Hôûŝé: “é’ŝ ŝ é àççéàé àçé ô à éàéŝ.” é à àé ôé ôô à é àççéàé àçé à à à àé é ô àéŝ— à é ô ô à çôŝŝŝ ô ô ŝé à à ûé çôéà  ô ŝé—ŝ à ô à -àéé éôé ô éDày Pàé.  é àéŝ à ôô  éà ô ŝé ôû é éàôçà çéŝ ô ŝûç à ŝé-éô ô, à é é ô ŝôçé  ŝàéŝ: à ŝé-ç, ŝé-éŝà, à ŝé-éçé ô ô é à  ééŝçé àŝ “é ôIçà ô.” hé ôé à é éôé. hé ŝç ô é ô àéŝ ô à é ŝôà ô é éàŝŝàçé Jàçô Bûà éŝçéŝ àŝ é ôé àé’ŝ  ô éà çôçûé ŝçôééŝ: “é ŝçôé ô é ô à à.” Ā à àéŝ ô à ô-ŝé ŝçôé, àé à éô: é ôé ô é éà ôûŝé, é éà ôûôôŝ, à ô é éô, à é çôé ô ŝé-éLéçô—à ŝô ŝ ŝé-éô. Wé  àé é ôà é ô ŝ, ôé çôééŝé  é ô ô-é: é àé ô é ô àŝ ôé, à ŝô à ô éçàŝ  é  éŝéçé ô àéàéŝ. Āŝ àŝ ûà ûŝ , “ ôû é Içû ô é à  ôû éŝé ŝôçà ççûŝàçéŝ é àé é çôçéé àôû ô ŝ à ôé ŝôçé ŝ û ô  ôŝééŝ à éŝçéŝ  ŝé à ŝ éôé.” Śûç à ôŝéàô àŝ  ô àçéé é ûéà ô ŝé-ééçé.  ŝ, àŝ Géôé Śéçé-Bô ûŝ , “é ô  ç ôû à ô à àôû ôû ôà  éééçé çà