The Subject of Minimalism: On Aesthetics, Agency, and BecomingUtilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic. |
Contents
| 1 | |
A Theoretical Context | 13 |
Sarraute Stein Hemingway | 33 |
3 Carver Sarraute Toussaint | 56 |
4 Echenoz Fabre DeLillo | 73 |
Becoming against the Screen | 93 |
Microsound and BecomingSilence | 113 |
7 The Masochistic Body | 130 |
BecomingMinimal | 141 |
9 On Virtue Verbs and the Virtual | 165 |
On Being Able | 179 |
Notes | 183 |
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The Subject of Minimalism: On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming Thomas Phillips No preview available - 2013 |
The Subject of Minimalism: On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming Thomas Phillips No preview available - 2015 |
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