Shapiro Michael J. Shapiro

Punctuations (eBook, PDF)

How the Arts Think the Political

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Produktbeschreibung

In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation-conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility-opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to create unexpected rhythmic pacing makes it an ideal tool for writers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists to challenge structures of power. In works ranging from film scores and jazz compositions to literature, architecture, and photography, Shapiro shows how the use of punctuation reveals the contestability of dominant narratives in ways that prompt readers, viewers, and listeners to reflect on their acceptance of those narratives. Such uses of punctuation, he theorizes, offer models for disrupting structures of authority, thereby fostering the creation of alternative communities of sense from which to base political mobilization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007265
• Artikelnr.: 66282455

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at M¿noa and the author of numerous books, most recently, The Political Sublime, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Deferrals, Punctuations, Media Textualities  1
1. How "Popular" Music Thinks the  Political  27
2. Urban Punctuations: Symphonic and Dialectic  55
3. Architectural Punctuations: The Politics of "Event Spaces"  84
4. Image Punctuations: From the Photographic to the Cinematic  115
5. Holocaust Punctuations: Handke, Kertész, and Sebald  148
Notes  175
Index  209