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Cloneliness : on the reproduction of loneliness
- Title
- Cloneliness : on the reproduction of loneliness / Michael O'Sullivan.
- Author
- O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 246 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities. Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining early 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context of more recent global expressions grounded in social networks, virtual reality, the biopolitical commons, academic credentialisation and such practices as Hikikomori. It reads many of these newer forms of loneliness through recent artistic explorations of loneliness in literature, photography and visual art, but also looks at classic works such as Frank O'Connor's The Lonely Voice and Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. Michael O'Sullivan argues that cloneliness as an institutional practice of reproduction in society nurtures, normalises and reproduces loneliness in order to create subjects who are more willing to accept ideologies of competition, "extreme individualism" and compulsive networking"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-242) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Cloneliness and radical embodied loneliness -- Loneliness as method : Henry James and the "essential loneliness" of art practice -- How do we live "alone together"? The "lonely voice" and the "submerged population" in O'Connor, Joyce and Mansfield -- Loneliness is part of the job : The "sentimental loneliness" of Carson McCullers and Richard Yates -- Beating academic loneliness and surviving boredom in David Foster Wallace -- Loneliness in a selection of Japanese philosophy and fiction : Takeo Doi, Natsume Soseki, Kitaro Nishida, Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata -- Filial piety and loneliness in a selection of Chinese novels : Cao Xueqin, Mo Yan, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin, Yiyun Li -- "I am trash" : Is student stress and self-stratification creating a generation of "interconnected loners"? / with Mak Ka Yu] -- Coda: Songs of Loneliness: "there is no escape from loneliness except in yourself".
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1791
- ISBN
- 9781501344824
- 150134482X
- LCCN
- 2019008332
- OCLC
- 1074378138
- Author
- O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- author.
- Title
- Cloneliness : on the reproduction of loneliness / Michael O'Sullivan.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-242) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- Cloneliness New York : 2019. 9781501344831 (DLC) 2019980156
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1791