Nomography
eBook - ePub

Nomography

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nomography

About this book

What if the most joyful act was not to transgress a norm but to erect it? What if creativity consisted in enunciating a law under the pretext of violating it? And what if it turned out that you, who claim to prefer exceptions, only talk about them because they allow you to imagine the rules? This book proposes a provocative interpretation of the dynamic relationship between the normative and the transgressive. Combining sociology, biopolitics and satire, it offers a surprising theory of normative imagination as a cognitive mode characteristic of the era of emotional capitalism. Gender, fashion, artistic creation and surveillance are analyzed from the perspective of a regulatory drive, a continuously renovated and imperative push for normalcy that no longer comes from factual powers but from citizens themselves. These, united in a spontaneous popular court, armed with smartphones and driven by juridical compulsion, become the axis of societies of control. In this way the affective ways of constructing subjectivity are replaced by the distinctive pathology of our times, the name of the globalized game: normopathy for all.

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Yes, you can access Nomography by Eloy Fernández Porta, Ramsey McGlazer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781509543953, 9781509543946
eBook ISBN
9781509543960
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Translator’s Note
  6. Grey Alert, Blue Pill
  7. The Nomographic Imagination
  8. Why Do They Call It “Sex” When They Mean “the Ethical Dimension of the Doctrine of Relation”?
  9. No One’s Style
  10. Desigual, or Difference
  11. On the Norm Considered as One of the Fine Arts
  12. End User License Agreement