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Microdystopias : Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment by Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene M. Johannessen; Janne Stigen Drangsholt; Asbjørn Grønstad; Henrik Gustafsson; Lene M. Johannessen; Anders Lysne; Holger Pötzsch; Michael J. Prince; Knut Rio; Øyvind Vågnes; Nahum N. Welang is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to concrete places and games, the contributors in Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment sound the depths of an existential sense of shrinking horizons – spatially, temporally, emotionally, and politically. The everyday encroachment on our sense of spatial orientation that gradually and discreetly diminishes the horizons of possibilities is demonstrated by examining what the forms of the microdystopic look like when they are aesthetically configured. Contributors analyze the aesthetics that play a particularly central and complex role in mediating, as well as disrupting, the parameters of dystopian emergences and emergencies, reflecting an increasingly uneasy relationship between the fictional, the cautionary, and the real. Scholars of media studies, sociology, and philosoph

Author

Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene M. Johannessen; Janne Stigen Drangsholt; Asbjørn Grønstad; Henrik Gustafsson; Lene M. Johannessen; Anders Lysne; Holger Pötzsch; Michael J. Prince; Knut Rio; Øyvind Vågnes; Nahum N. Welang

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781666929423

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science