Expands on the concepts of detox, filter, binge, and ghost to offer a fresh lens on modern cultural phenomena
Connects these ideas to a wide range of art, literature, and media examples for interdisciplinary analysis
Uses promiscuous archives to re-shuffle literary and art historical genealogies for innovative theorization
Argues for the necessity of aesthetic theory in understanding contemporary crises and cultural production
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In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis—and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, bingeing, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come to define how people deal with the stress of living in a world that seems in permanent