Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment

ISBN-13: 9781474422932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

Robert Pfaller

Opis

Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are some recovering alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers?

Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment. Applicable to both art and everyday life, the concept allows him to tackle a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion.

Pfaller criticises dominant assumptions, offers an escape from prevailing ideologies and exposes how cultural capitalism promotes commodities with the promise of happiness.

Spis treści

Introduction: Interpassivity Today; 1 The Work of Art That Observes Itself; 2 The Parasites of Parricide. Living through the other when killing the father: Interpassivity in Brothers Karamazov; 3 Little Gestures of Disappearance. Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual; 4 Interpassivity and Misdemeanours. The Art of Thinking In Examples and the Zizekian Toolbox; 5 Against Participation; 6 Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love; 7 What Reveals the Taste of the City. On Urbanity; Bibliography.