LEADER 02706 am 22004333u 450 001 9910245736103321 005 20230621140714.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0188.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001115735 035 $a(OAPEN)1004654 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001115735 100 $a20200123h20172017 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---a||u| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe retro-futurism of cuteness / edited by Jen Boyle, Wan-Chuan Kao 210 1$aEarth, Milky Way ;$a[Brooklyn, NY] :$cpunctum books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 $a1-947447-28-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aIs it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to ?cute? in the sense of ?attractive, pretty, charming? to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde within the context of consumer culture. But if cuteness can get under the skin, what kinds of surfaces does it best infiltrate, particularly in the framework of historical forms, events, and objects that traditionally have been read as emergences around ?big? aesthetics of formal symmetries, high affects, and resemblances? The Retrofuturism of Cuteness seeks to undo the temporal strictures surrounding aesthetic and affective categories, to displace a strict focus on commodification and cuteness, and to interrogate how cuteness as a minor aesthetics can refocus our perceptions and readings of both premodern and modern media, literature, and culture. Taking seriously the retro and the futuristic temporalities of cuteness, this volume puts in conversation projects that have unearthed remnants of a ?cult of cute??positioned historically and critically in between transitions into secularization, capitalist frameworks of commodification, and the enchantment of objects?and those that have investigated the uncanny haunting of earlier aesthetics in future-oriented modes of cuteness. 606 $aAesthetics, Modern 606 $aCharm 606 $aChildishness 606 $aChildishness in literature 615 0$aAesthetics, Modern. 615 0$aCharm. 615 0$aChildishness. 615 0$aChildishness in literature. 702 $aBoyle$b Jen 702 $aKao$b Wan-Chuan 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910245736103321 996 $aThe retro-futurism of cuteness$92023466 997 $aUNINA