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The Sublime and the Digital Landscape

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Titre (article, livre complet, chapitre de livre, publication réseaux sociaux, pageWeb, SiteWeb complet, etc.)

The Sublime and the Digital Landscape

Auteur de la référence bibliograpique

Annie Dorsen

Date de publication (AAAA ou AAAA-MM-JJ)

2018-02-01

Numéro (revues scientifiques)

1

Volume (revues scientifiques)

48

Maison d'édition / Nom de la revue scientifique / Nom du site Web / Nom de l'institution universitaire (thèses) / Institution d'un rapport, etc.

Theatre

Intervalles des pages (articles)

55-67

URL (adresse Web)

https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-4250956

Is Referenced By

HVCPX93W

Abstract

Annie Dorsen discusses the concept of the digital sublime and how it informed the creation of her work The Great Outdoors (2017). The Internet, in its scale and scope, and information itself has become a sublime landscape for contemplation, albeit more of a “stuplimity,” as Sianne Ngai has termed it, a sublime stupidity rather than a Romantic one. Historicizing the sublime from its origins in Longinus through Kant to the present day, Dorsen argues that the sublime is an aesthetic of technocratic collapse, and a response to the limitations of rational understanding in the face of overwhelming irrationality. She concludes by meditating on the potential power of the digital sublime in art to resist contemporary forms of stuplimity, especially in politics, that threaten to psychic health, public discourse, and civilization at large.

short title

Theater

doi

10.1215/01610775-4250956

issn

0161-0775

Source

Silverchair

Date Submitted

2025-03-07T19:09:00Z

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ARCANES

Julie-Michèle

Item sets

IA, pratiques narratives et arts performatifs

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The Sublime and the Digital Landscape Article