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Microdystopias
Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment
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2022
Summary
This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to concrete places and games, the contributors in Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment sound the depths of an existential sense of shrinking horizons – spatially, temporally, emotionally, and politically. The everyday encroachment on our sense of spatial orientation that gradually and discreetly diminishes the horizons of possibilities is demonstrated by examining what the forms of the microdystopic look like when they are aesthetically configured. Contributors analyze the aesthetics that play a particularly central and complex role in mediating, as well as disrupting, the parameters of dystopian emergences and emergencies, reflecting an increasingly uneasy relationship between the fictional, the cautionary, and the real. Scholars of media studies, sociology, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2942-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2943-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Microdystopias No access Pages 1 - 16
Toward a Diagnostics of the Present No access Pages 17 - 40
The Electronic Superhighway Collapses No access Pages 41 - 56
Microdystopias and the Encoded Uncanny in Ira Levin & Rick and Morty No access Pages 57 - 80
Unfeeling the Future: Euphoria, Teen Angst, and the Micro-dystopic No access Pages 81 - 100
“Heavenly Days” and Everyday Dystopia in Superstore No access Pages 101 - 118
Nomadland, Neoliberalism and the Microdystopic No access Pages 119 - 132
Micro-dystopia and the Question of Wilderness No access Pages 133 - 150
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? No access Pages 151 - 170
“It’s Our Secret, Right?” No access Pages 171 - 190
