Spirals - Nico Israel

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Résumé :
Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the spiral not only as his topic but as inspiration for his method, Israel challenges familiar, discipline-based approaches to modernism and its aftermaths and gives twenty-first-century theory an important new spin.

Biographie:
Nico Israel is an associate professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Hunter College. He is the author of Outlandish: Writing Between Exile and Diaspora and has published numerous academic essays on twentieth-century literature and critical theory. He has also published widely on modern and contemporary visual art in Artforum, art exhibition catalogs, and other publications.

Sommaire:
List of Illustrations
Introduction: On Spirals
1. Definitions: A Brief History of Spirals (and a Way of Reading Spirally)
2. Entering the Whirlpool: 'Pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism
3. Twinned Towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the Unfashionable Performance of Internationalism
4. L'Habite en Spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the Ineluctable Visibility of Entropy
Plates
5. At the End of the Jetty: Beckett?.?.?. Smithson. Recoil?.?. Return
In Conclusion: The Spiral and the Grid
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index