All of this information at our fingertips-and we might not need any of it
Concurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo-a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
| ISBN: | 9781517908034 |
| Publication date: | 29th October 2019 |
| Author: | Aaron Jaffe |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 100 pages |
| Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Media studies Film history, theory or criticism |
All of this information at our fingertips-and we might not need any of it
Concurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo-a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Spoiler Alert features in the following genres: Popular culture, Media studies, Film history, theory or criticism
Spoiler Alert is available in Paperback
Spoiler Alert was written by Aaron Jaffe and published by University of Minnesota Press
Spoiler Alert has 100 pages
Yes it is part of Forerunners: Ideas First series