Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

✍ Scribed by Temenuga Trifonova (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of our failure to "cognitively map" the decentered global network of capital or the rhizomatic structure of the postmetropolis (spatial), to its neurophenomenological redefinition in terms of the new temporality of presence produced by network/real time (temporal). This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits―cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental―of representation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Editor’s Introduction
1 The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen
2 Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality
3 The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime
4 Of Fake and Real Sublimes
5 “Black and Glittering”: The Inscrutable Sublime
6 Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity
7 Recentering the Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches
8 Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime
9 The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime
10 From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime
11 Feeling Not at Home in the Twenty-First-Century World: The Sublimein Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics
12 The Sublime as a Mode of Address in Contemporary EnvironmentalPhotography
13 Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema
14 Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime
15 The Birds and the Bees
List of Contributors
Index