The Resource Obstruction, Nick Salvato
Obstruction, Nick Salvato
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- Summary
- Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggest that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits, laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be paradoxically generative. Rather than being dismissed as hindrances, these obstructions are to be embraced, clung to, and reoriented. Analyzing an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics and Denis Diderot to Dean Martin and the Web series Drunk History, Salvato finds value in five obstructions: embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness. Whether listening to Tori Amos's music as a way to think about embarrassment, linking the MTV series Daria to using cynicism to negotiate higher education's corporatized climate, or examining the affect of slowness in Kelly Reichardt's films, Salvato expands our conceptions of each obstruction and shows ways to transform them into useful provocations. With a unique, literary, and self-reflexive voice, Salvato demonstrates the importance of these debased obstructions and shows how they may support alternative modes of intellectual activity. In doing so, he impels us to rethink the very meanings of thinking, work, and value. -- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 263 pages
- Contents
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- Embarrassment
- Laziness
- Slowness
- Cynicism
- Digressiveness
- Conclusion: Sober futurity
- Isbn
- 9780822360841
- Label
- Obstruction
- Title
- Obstruction
- Statement of responsibility
- Nick Salvato
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggest that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits, laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be paradoxically generative. Rather than being dismissed as hindrances, these obstructions are to be embraced, clung to, and reoriented. Analyzing an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics and Denis Diderot to Dean Martin and the Web series Drunk History, Salvato finds value in five obstructions: embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness. Whether listening to Tori Amos's music as a way to think about embarrassment, linking the MTV series Daria to using cynicism to negotiate higher education's corporatized climate, or examining the affect of slowness in Kelly Reichardt's films, Salvato expands our conceptions of each obstruction and shows ways to transform them into useful provocations. With a unique, literary, and self-reflexive voice, Salvato demonstrates the importance of these debased obstructions and shows how they may support alternative modes of intellectual activity. In doing so, he impels us to rethink the very meanings of thinking, work, and value. -- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NcD/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Salvato, Nick
- Dewey number
- 152.4
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Text in English
- LC call number
- BF175.5.A35
- LC item number
- S25 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Affect (Psychology)
- Doctrine of the affections
- Popular culture
- Culture
- Affect (Psychology)
- Culture
- Doctrine of the affections
- Popular culture
- Literaturproduktion
- Hemmung
- Label
- Obstruction, Nick Salvato
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Embarrassment -- Laziness -- Slowness -- Cynicism -- Digressiveness -- Conclusion: Sober futurity
- Control code
- ocn910856274
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822360841
- Lccn
- 2015033382
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780822360988
- (OCoLC)910856274
- Label
- Obstruction, Nick Salvato
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Embarrassment -- Laziness -- Slowness -- Cynicism -- Digressiveness -- Conclusion: Sober futurity
- Control code
- ocn910856274
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822360841
- Lccn
- 2015033382
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780822360988
- (OCoLC)910856274
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