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"The Off-Modern charts a fresh path beyond the categories of modernism and postmodernism, center and periphery, artistic theory and practice."-- Provided by publisher.

Title The off-modern / Svetlana Boym.
Publisher New York : Bloomsbury Academic
Creation Date 2017
Notes Also issued in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction (Tamar Abramov, Koc University, Turkey
Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University, USA
David Damrosch, Harvard University, USA) -- 1. History Out-of-Sync -- 2. Cultural Exaptation -- 3. Human Error -- 4. Nostalgic Technologies -- 5. Digital Resident Aliens -- 6. Edgy Geography -- 7. Archive of Pentimenti -- 8. Perspectivism -- 9. Prospective Nostalgia -- 10. Ruinophilia -- 11. Off-Modern Urbanism -- 12. Embarrassing Monumentality -- 13. Tact and Touch -- 14. Diasporic Intimacy -- 15. Immigrant Arts -- 14. Alternative Solidarities and Feminine Friendships -- 17. Estrangement for the World -- 18. Defamiliarized Human -- 19. Squiggles, Spirals, and Serpentine Dances -- 20. The Off-Modern Museum -- 21. Hypertextual Design and Essayistic Drift -- 22. On Off -- Practices -- Unforeseen Homecoming -- Phantasmagorias of History -- Turning the Page on the Avant-Garde -- Hybrid Utopias -- Global Transits and Portable Homes -- Postindustrial Art Nouveau: Tirana Arabesques 2010 -- Multitasking with Clouds -- Airport Ruins -- Hydrant Immigrants -- Not Working -- Black Mirrors -- Notes.
Series International texts in critical media aesthetics
Extent 1 online resource (225 pages).
Language English
National Library system number 997010702543405171
MARC RECORDS
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