Seeing Through Madness
Essays in Crazy Times
Seeing Through Madness
Essays in Crazy Times
336 pages | 10 color plates, 73 halftones | 6 x 9
Art: Art--General Studies
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Crazy Talk
One: Epoch
1. The Rule of Madness
2. American Psychosis: Trump and the Nightmare of History
3. Present Tense 2020: An Iconology of the Epoch
Two: Media
4. Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture
5. Cinemania: Madness and the Moving Image
6. The Colors of Madness
7. On Gifted Schizophrenia
Three: Worlds
8. Atlas Fever: Method, Madness, Montage
9. Planetary Madness: Globalizing the Ship of Fools
10. Strategic Lunacy: Nam June Paik from Moon to TV
11. From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence
12. Present Tense 2024: End Times, Endgames
Acknowledgments
Index