Für Sianne Ngai lassen sich das Niedliche (»cute«) und der Gimmick nicht als Kitsch (Adorno) oder...

Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and dis...

Envy, irritation, paranoia-in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, thes...

Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundam...

Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"e...

Für Sianne Ngai lassen sich das Niedliche (»cute«) und der Gimmick nicht als Kitsch (Adorno) oder...

The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and cont...

blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection o...

A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category--the cute--o...

The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its a...