Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

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.

• | By (Author): Sianne Ngai
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 02, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0674088123
• | ISBN-13: 9780674088122