Stupid Humanism [electronic resource] : Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-First-Century Culture / by Christine Hoffmann.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319637518
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/4418
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIV, 192 p. 31 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700, 2634-5900
İçindekiler Notu
1 Introduction: Spamming the Renaissance -- 2 Middling Through Somehow: Queer Temporality and the Disaster Meme -- 3 Folly 2020! The Campaign for Foolishness in 21st-Century Politics -- 4 The Anatomy of Public Shaming -- 5 What is Clickbait? (Check All That Apply) -- 6 The Faerie Queene, the Gif and the Rhetorical Stuplime.
Özet, vb.
This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia—abundance of expression—and the rhetorical practices essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a synonym for copia, making the humanism of which copia is a central element an inherently stupid philosophy. A transhistorical exploration of stupidity demonstrates that not only is excess still the surest way to eloquence, but it is also just the kind of spammy, speculative undertaking to generate a more generous and inventive comprehension of human and nonhuman relationships. In chapters exploring the rhetorics of memes, attack ads, public shaming blogs, clickbait and gifs, Stupid Humanism outlines the possibilities for a humanism less invested in the normative logics that enshrine knowledge, eloquence and linear development as the chief indicators of an active, articulated selfhood and more supportive of a program for queer knowledge, trivial pursuits, anti-social ethics and the curious relationships that form around and in response to abundance of expression.
Konu
European literature __ Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Literature and technology.
Mass media and literature.
Digital humanities.
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
Literature and Technology.
Digital Humanities.
Literature and technology.
Mass media and literature.
Digital humanities.
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
Literature and Technology.
Digital Humanities.
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