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Incalculable loss / Manuel Arturo Abreu.
"Incalculable Loss is the debut collection of critical prose from artist and poet manuel arturo abreu. In their own words, the text 'orbits the topics of art, race, tech, and feelings,' gathering writing from 2014 to 2018 and presenting a kind of paean to the critical position, which is often maligned as parasitic or paradoxical. With a sense of casual rigor and flippancy, the included texts tackle themes from the problems of theorizing cannibalism, the violence of modernism in art via theft of Black and brown aesthetics, the commodification of identity, and the ways in which Big Data makes all of 'us' newly complicit in the death and violence that powers the global system. Originally titled Against Theory -- as in both anti-theory and rubbing up on its surface -- abreu's text offers various modes of recalibrating one's own thinking, showing that if one truly loves knowledge, one must let it go"--Publisher's website.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780997763935
- ISBN: 0997763930
- Physical Description: 213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
- Publisher: [Portland, Oregon] : INCA Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Notes on the garage residency -- Is theorizing cannibalism ethical? -- Rhizome artist profile : Manuel Arturo Abreu -- Gaming the system : Mongrel's "blacklash" against stereotypes in 1990s videogames -- Think different : Mongrel's "heritage gold" and the commodification of identity -- Against the supremacy of thought -- Online imagined black English -- Transtrender : a meditation on gender as a racial construct -- Is the face a screen? -- Incalculable loss. |
| Information Relating to Copyright Status: | This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Awards Note: | Oregon Book Awards finalist, 2019 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Art and society. Race > Social aspects. Technology > Social aspects. |
| Genre: | Creative nonfiction. Art criticism. |
| Topic Heading: | Oregon authors. |
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Carnegie Public Library | 818.6 ABREU (Text) | 37883000339834 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Baker County Library | 701.03 .A162i 2018 (Text) | 37814003233963 | NON-FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Lake County Main Library - Lakeview | 701.03 ABREU (Text) | 37620000930612 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Milton-Freewater Public Library | 701.03 Abreu (Text) | 37862000440719 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"Incalculable Loss is the debut collection of critical prose from artist and poet manuel arturo abreu. In their own words, the text 'orbits the topics of art, race, tech, and feelings,' gathering writing from 2014 to 2018 and presenting a kind of paean to the critical position, which is often maligned as parasitic or paradoxical. With a sense of casual rigor and flippancy, the included texts tackle themes from the problems of theorizing cannibalism, the violence of modernism in art via theft of Black and brown aesthetics, the commodification of identity, and the ways in which Big Data makes all of 'us' newly complicit in the death and violence that powers the global system. Originally titled Against Theory -- as in both anti-theory and rubbing up on its surface -- abreu's text offers various modes of recalibrating one's own thinking, showing that if one truly loves knowledge, one must let it go"--Publisher's website.
