The Cultural Career of Coolness Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan |
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| Editor:
| Haselstein, Ulla
Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela
Gersdorf, Catrin
Giannoulis, Elena |
| Contribution by:
| Joel Dinerstein, Joel
Frese, Sophia
Heise, Jens
Kinski, Michael
McGuigan, Jim
Newmark, Catherine
Raz, Aviad E.
Roquet, Paul
Selden, Daniel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7391-7316-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $142.00 |
Book Description:
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Today, coolness is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles. The Cultural Career of Coolness explores the history of the term as a metaphor for affect control and aesthetic detachment, charts various cultural practices of coolness in the United States and Japan, and links them to the rationalization of intimate relations and an incorporation of disaffection in modernity.
Today, coolness is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles. The Cultural Career of Coolness explores the history of the term as a metaphor for affect control and aesthetic detachment, charts various cultural practices of coolness in the United States and Japan, and links them to the rationalization of intimate relations and an incorporation of disaffection in modernity.