
The Art of Cruelty
A Reckoning
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Narrated by:
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Tavia Gilbert
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By:
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Maggie Nelson
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the 20th-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates this contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel.
In a journey through high and low culture (Kafka to reality TV), the visual to the verbal (Paul McCarthy to Brian Evenson), and the apolitical to the political (Francis Bacon to Kara Walker), Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.
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Great book!
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Fire Tavia Gilbert!!!
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Is Artaud so glad and at peace?
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too staccato and mannered. Nonetheless, the material was compelling enough that I listened to the end I have now ordered the book so that I can read it in hardcopy. It warrants that kind of attention.
Hugely powerful
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Paradigm enhancing
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Wonderful book, mediocre narration
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However, I do not recommend it for people who haven't read Jane, and The Red Parts by Nelson first. Also, if you're not well versed in criticism (this includes me), buckled up and have a tab for Google open. Read Butler, Scarry, Sontag, in addition to this. Basically, I will be coming back to this book after I've gained more contextual insight. Note: it's not that Nelson is hard to understand by any means; she guides you through how she's uses text. It's that I'm pretentious and feel inadequate because I haven't read as much. lol
Happy reading, nerds.
Fantastic, but I do not recommend this book first.
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Long Justification Of Not Watching The News
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