Modern Monsters: Death And Life Of Fiction

by Anselm Franke (Editor)

Other authorsJames Hong (Contributor), David Wang (Contributor), Reza Negarestani (Contributor), Joachim Koester (Contributor), Nabil Ahmed (Contributor), Chen Chieh-Jen (Contributor), Jow Gong (Contributor)
Paperback, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

EX.TAI.TPB1.2012

Publication

Spector Books (2014), 300 pages

Description

Departing from the figure of the Taowu, a Chinese mythological monster of evil inclination used recently by historians and writers to symbolize the violent fate of Chinese utopian modernity, this publication interrogates the role of systemic and structural violence in the making of modernity and its artistic representations, and uses the monster as a vantage point to capture global dimensions of the current crisis of social imaginaries.

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

3944669568 / 9783944669564
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