The power of cute / Simon May.
نوع المادة : نصاللغة: الإنجليزية الناشر:Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2019تاريخ حقوق النشر: �2019وصف:xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0691181810
- 9780691181813
- BH301.C4 M24 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
Preface -- Cute as a weapon of mass seduction -- Spooked in the Garden of Eden -- Cute as an uncertainty principle -- Mickey Mouse and the cuteness continuum -- Kawaii : the new Japanese imperium -- The cuteness of Kim Jong-il -- Cute and the uncanny -- What's wrong with cute anthropomorphism? -- Cute and the monstrous : the case of Donald Trump -- Cute and the new cult of the child -- Survival of the cutest -- Cute and kitsch : identical twins? -- Exiting the cult of sincerity -- "Lifetime is a child at play".
Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pok�emon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T. - all reflect its gathering power. But what does "cute" mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on - in a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers. We usually see the cute as merely diminutive, harmless, and helpless. May challenges this prevailing perspective, investigating everything from Mickey Mouse to Kim Jong-il to argue that cuteness is not restricted to such sweet qualities but also beguiles us by transforming or distorting them into something of playfully indeterminate power, gender, age, morality, and even species. May grapples with cuteness's dark and unpindownable side - unnerving, artful, knowing, apprehensive - elements that have fascinated since ancient times through mythical figures, especially hybrids like the hermaphrodite and the sphinx. He argues that cuteness is an addictive antidote to today's pressured expectations of knowing our purpose, being in charge, and appearing predictable, transparent, and sincere. Instead, it frivolously expresses the uncertainty that these norms deny: the ineliminable uncertainty of who we are; of how much we can control and know; of who, in our relations with others, really has power; indeed, of the very value and purpose of power. The Power of Cute delves into a phenomenon that speaks with strange force to our age.