Angle of Yaw
In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public space, public speech, and how the technologies of viewing-aerial photography in particular-feed our culture an image of itself. And it's a spectacular view.The man observes the action on the field with the tiny television he brought to the stadium. He is topless, painted gold, bewigged. His exaggerated foam index finger indicates the giant screen upon which his own image is now displayed, a model of fanaticism. He watches the image of his watching…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61932-008-6
- EAN: 9781619320086
- Produktnummer: 24088561
- Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 763 KB
Über den Autor
Ben Lerner is from Topeka, Kansas, and holds a B.A and M.F.A. from Brown University. A former Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Lerner co-founded No: a journal of the arts. His first book, The Lichtenberg Figures, won the Hayden Carruth Award and was named one of the year's best books of poetry by Library Journal.
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