Inhaltsangabe:
  • Acknowledgments; Part 1 Void; Introduction; 1 Race and Other Voids; 2 Talking Politics in the Fertile Void; Part 2 Medium; 3 Medium upon Matter; 4 Medium upon Medium; Part 3 Void as Medium; 5 Melvillean Aesthetics, Postwar Post-Politics; 6 A Dumb Blankness Full of Meaning; Conclusion; References; Index
  • This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present