Aaron Jaffe: 3 books
The Way Things Go
An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and...
Election 2016: Democracy in Disarray
A Campaign Bloated with Bombastry, Bigotry, and Blatant Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Nov. 9, 2016, Americans awoke like they’d spent a night of blackout drinking—Unbelievably, D. Trump had won the election. Expect insights like “Trump thinks he’s infallible”or how the Pantsuited Crusader Hillary Clinton closely paralleled Batman and why Bernie Sanders had millennials Feeling the Bern.
Modernist Star Maps
Celebrity, Modernity, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range...