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Author Porta, Eloy Fernández

Title Nomography
Published Newark : Polity Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (133 p.)
Series Theory Redux Ser
Theory Redux Ser
Contents Cover -- Nomography -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Grey Alert, Blue Pill -- The Nomographic Imagination -- Why Do They Call It "Sex" When They Mean "the Ethical Dimension of the Doctrine of Relation"? -- No One's Style -- Desigual, or Difference -- On the Norm Considered as One of the Fine Arts -- Notes
Summary 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Social norms.
Deviant behavior.
Conformity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Conformity
Deviant behavior
Social norms
Form Electronic book
Author McGlazer, Ramsey
ISBN 9781509544189
1509544186