Breathing Aesthetics /

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"Breathing Aesthetics explores aesthetic responses to our contemporary crisis in breathing. Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that following a global increase of air pollution in the 1970s, and the continuation of racial and extractive capitalism and imperialism, breathing has emerged as a medium thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tremblay, Jean-Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Respiration in literature.
Respiration in art.
Queer theory.
Feminism and the arts.
Environment (Aesthetics)
Ecocriticism.
Arts and society.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Respiration > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ecologies of the particular
  • Breathing against nature
  • Aesthetic self-medication (three regimens)
  • Feminist breathing
  • Smog sensing
  • Death in the form of life
  • Coda: A queer theory of benign respiratory variations.

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