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A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category--the cute--on postwar and contemporary art. The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials, The Cute explores the ramifications of an aesthetic "of" or "about" minorness--or w...

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Für Sianne Ngai lassen sich das Niedliche (»cute«) und der Gimmick nicht als Kitsch (Adorno) oder Camp (Sontag) begreifen, also als Gegenstück zur ernsthaften Kunst, sie kommt vielmehr zu dem Schluss, dass die spezifischen sozialen Transformationen bzw. ästhetischen Problemstellungen dieser »kleinen minoritären« Affektformen diejenigen sind, die die Herstellung, Verbreitung und Rezeption aller Kunstpraxis maßgeblich beeinflussen.

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Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises of saving labor and increasing value that we distrust but also find attractive. Exploring the use of this form, Ngai shows how its aesthetic dissatisfactions reflect deeper anxieties about capitalism.

The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.

blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory.