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11%OFFMark Seltzer - The Official World - 9780822361008 - V9780822361008
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The Official World

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Description for The Official World Paperback. In The Official World Mark Seltzer analyzes the suspense fiction, films, and performance art of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others to demonstrate that the modern world continuously establishes itself through the staging of its own conditions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 285 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions. Employing the social theories of Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, and Peter Sloterdijk, Seltzer shows how suspense novels, films, and performance art by Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
384 g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361008
SKU
V9780822361008
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About Mark Seltzer
Mark Seltzer is Evan Frankel Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of several books, including Bodies and Machines and Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture.

Reviews for The Official World
The Official World is many things: an original and compelling account of modernity; a primer on systems theory; a methodological intervention; and a profound commentary-humorous at times, at times startling and even frightening-on the way of the world. Whether it is admired most for its engagements with Luhmann and Goffman, its insights into the fiction and art of the official ... Read more

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