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Feeling Capital: Subjectivity and Survival in American Empire.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Feeling Capital: Subjectivity and Survival in American Empire./
Author:	Brewster, Oslo .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	131 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09A.
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27671768
ISBN:	9781392521342

Feeling Capital: Subjectivity and Survival in American Empire.
Brewster, Oslo .

Feeling Capital: Subjectivity and Survival in American Empire. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 131 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores some of the affective ways people in internal colonies in North Atlantic imperial locations forge spaces of pleasure and escape, and the ways in which these spaces integrate them with the global dispossessed and into the larger structure of global capitalism. A trio of strategies is explored here: sugar as palliative, clothing as construction of self, and music as formation of community. A primary strategy many people bring to bear to the tensions of empire involves food and drugs. From sugar to opioids, people ingest substances that alter consciousness and embodiment, comforting themselves via deadening feeling and distraction. This dissertation is interested in sugar as a classical imperial commodity that helps the mind reconcile itself to the body, all the while also harming it. Second, people craft subjectivities out of wearable art, that is, clothing. The gnawing awareness of the global paths of our garments, prompted by the regular exposes of cruel labor exploitation by this or that manufacturer or textile producer, is an omnipresent feeling in contemporary life in the United States. This dissertation analyzes the ways people use clothing to express hopes for themselves, fashion identities that gesture to particular gender, class, and racial positions, and therefore obfuscate the global paths of fashion items. In counterpoint, it analyzes a designer who makes the commodity chains of the clothing industry visible on the seams and surfaces of the clothing itself. The final strategy for the negotiation of the tensions of imperial intimacy involves disco, a form of pleasurable release and community-building that eventually experienced intense commodification and uneven global circulation. The final portion of this dissertation is a curated collection of images, videos, and sound files, collected online at https://diss.realoslo.net/ to provide visitors a different sort of encounter with the ideas it develops in print. It demonstrates the affective impact of still and moving images when displayed in conversation with each other.

ISBN: 9781392521342Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Affect

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