Description
All of this information at our fingertips-and we might not need any of it
Concurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo-a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
About the Author
Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of American Literature at Florida State University. His books include Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity and The Way Things Go (Minnesota, 2014).
Book Information
ISBN 9781517908034
Author Aaron Jaffe
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 6mm
