Life-Destroying Diagrams
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Life-Destroying Diagrams

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Life-Destroying Diagrams

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In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to formal logics of torture and cruelty, violence and finitude, friendship and eros, debt and care. Beginning with a wholesale rethinking of the affect of horror, orienting it away from entrenched models of feeling toward impersonal schemes and structures, Brinkema moves outward to consider the relation between objects and affects, humiliation and metaphysics, genre and the general, bodily destruction and aesthetic generation, geometry and scenography, hatred and value, love and measurement, and, ultimately, the tensions, hazards, and speculative promise of formalism itself. Replete with etymological meditations, performative typography, and lyrical digressions, Life-Destroying Diagrams is at once a model of reading without guarantee and a series of generative experiments in the writing of aesthetic theory.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781478021650
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Exordia
  5. Color Plates
  6. Chapter One ◆ Horrēre Or
  7. Chapter Two ◆ The Ordinal (Death by Design)
  8. Interlude I ◆ Abecedarium
  9. Interlude II ◆ Rhythm & Feel
  10. Lapsus
  11. Interlude III ◆ Objects, Relations, Shape
  12. Chapter Three ◆ Grid, Table, Failure, Line
  13. Two Violences
  14. Chapter Four ◆ Middle-Term Notations: Letter, Number, Diagram
  15. Postscript ◆ ars formularia: Radical Formalism and the Speculative Task
  16. Love and Measurement
  17. Acknowledgments ◆ (On The Erotics of the Colleague)
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index