Brinkema, Eugenie
Life-Destroying Diagrams
- ISBN 13:
- 9781478014348
- author:
- Brinkema, Eugenie
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 496
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Life-Destroying Diagrams by Eugenie Brinkema is a radical exploration of the formal logics underlying horror and love. Through close readings of film, literature, and philosophy, Brinkema examines how diagrams and other visual structures attest to the formal schemes that underpin torture, cruelty, violence, and finitude. Brinkema's work reorients our understanding of horror away from traditional models of feeling towards impersonal schemes and structures. She considers the relation between objects and affects, humiliation and metaphysics, genre and the general, bodily destruction and aesthetic generation, geometry and scenography, hatred and value, love and measurement, and ultimately, the tensions and speculative promise of formalism itself. This book is a model of reading without guarantee, offering a series of generative experiments in the writing of aesthetic theory. With etymological meditations, performative typography, and lyrical digressions, Life-Destroying Diagrams presents a unique perspective on the intersections of horror, love, and formal logic.
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