| #116968 in Books | Sianne Ngai | 2015-10-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.90 x5.70l,.0 | File type: PDF | 344 pages | Our Aesthetic Categories Zany Cute Interesting||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Tamara|Great!|5 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Reinterprets the present|By Caroline Durlacher|Ngai reinterprets the present through the lens of the zany, the cute, and the interesting. I feel like I've seen anew the TV, jokes, art, books, clothes, technology, etc. that I've been living with. Rea
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.
You easily download any file type for your device.Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting | Sianne Ngai. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.