Nomography - Eloy Fernández Porta

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Auteur(s) : Eloy Fernández Porta

Editeur : Polity Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 120

Expédition : 364

Dimensions : 22.7 x 15.0 x 1.8

ISBN : 9781509543953

Résumé :
Translator's Note vi

Grey Alert, Blue Pill 1

The Nomographic Imagination 10

Why Do They Call It Sex When They

Mean the Ethical Dimension of the

Doctrine of Relation? 34

No One's Style 48

Desigual, or Difference 63

On the Norm Considered as One of the Fine Arts 79

Notes 117

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Biographie:
Eloy Fern?ndez Porta?is Professor of New Literary Trends at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona....

Sommaire:
What if the most joyful act was not to transgress a norm but to erect it? What if creativity consisted in enunciating a law under the pretext of violating it? And what if it turned out that you, who claim to prefer exceptions, only talk about them because they allow you to imagine the rules??

This book proposes a provocative interpretation of the dynamic relationship between the normative and the transgressive. Combining sociology, biopolitics and satire, it offers a surprising theory of normative imagination as a cognitive mode characteristic of the era of emotional capitalism. Gender, fashion, artistic creation and surveillance are analyzed from the perspective of a regulatory drive, a continuously renovated and imperative push for normalcy that no longer comes from factual powers but from citizens themselves. These, united in a spontaneous popular court, armed with smartphones and driven by juridical compulsion, become the axis of societies of control. In this way the affective ways of constructing subjectivity are replaced by the distinctive pathology of our times, the name of the globalized game: normopathy for all....