Accounts of minimalism’s ascent in postwar American fiction vary, but one common scholarly perspective links the aesthetic with war fiction, specifically Vietnam War narratives and Ernest Hemingway’s World War I…
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Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
“It comes down to / so little”: Ashbery, Matthíasdóttir, and Minimal Afterlives
In Something Close to Music, a recent posthumous collection of his scattered art criticism (plus poems and playlists), John Ashbery writes of the work of the late Icelandic painter Louisa Matthíasdóttir…
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
“A Handshake Is Available Upon Request”: Severance and the Uneasiness of Sparsity
The offices of biotech company Lumon are empty. Hallways and rooms are bare, though not totally insipid. Once exiting the corridors, workers’ units bear a splash of colour — green…
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
An Introduction to “Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics”
Are we all minimalist now? In early 2019, U.S. news organizations reported a surge of clothing and other donations to charity shops, a surge they called the Marie Kondo effect.1…
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Contemporaries Essays, The Hallyu Project
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Embodying K-Pop in Public: The (Inter-)Subjective Kinesthesia in K-Pop Random Play Dance
The Popularization of K-pop Random Play Dance From the streets along Hongdae to shopping malls in China, from New York Times Square to Chicago’s Chinatown, K-pop dances are more frequently…
Contemporaries Essays, The Hallyu Project
Bots and Binaries: On the Failure of Human Verification
In online tests of human verification, K-pop fans will often fail. A song looped on Spotify too many times, a track purchased and then re-purchased on the same music site,…