Matt Tierney Book order

For the master's tools, the poet Audre Lorde wrote, will never dismantle the master's house. Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the decade and a half before 1980. Following Alice Hilton's 1963 admonition that the coming years would bring...

Focusing on the emergence of void aesthetics in postwar fiction, film, and theory, the book examines how this aesthetic creates disruptive opportunities in today's post-political landscape. It delves into the implications of void aesthetics, highlighting its potential to challenge conventional narratives and provoke new ways of thinking about art and society.