Stainless Steel Banana Slicer
David Trotter, 18 March 2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
by Sianne Ngai.
Harvard, 401 pp., £28.95, June 2020,978 0 674 98454 7 Show More
by Sianne Ngai.
Harvard, 401 pp., £28.95, June 2020,
“... in a chapter that compares Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘The Bottle Imp’ (1891) with David Robert Mitchell’s zombie film It Follows (2014). The former was published a year after the sovereign debt crisis brought about by the insolvency of Barings Bank, the latter conceived in the aftermath of the 2008 subprime debacle. Both concern ‘gimmicks ... ”