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01767aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 6C752B7C74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 191012s2019 mnu r 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1517908035 020 $a 9781517908034 035 $a (OCoLC)1122800583 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d OSU $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d MAC $d SILO 100 1 $a Jaffe, Aaron $e author. 245 10 $a Spoiler alert : $b a critical guide / $c Aaron Jaffe. 260 $a Minneapolis, MN : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 100 pages ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Forerunners: ideas first 505 0 $a Introduction: spoilers ahead -- There is yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer: inhumanism at the literary limit -- Pop culture today; or, plasticman, where are you? -- Imipolex S/Z -- Conclusion: updating as modernity; or, impermanent test dept. 520 $a All of this information at our fingertips--and we might not need any of it. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo--a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, VileÌm Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion. 650 0 $a Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) 650 0 $a Fiction $x Technique. 650 0 $a Trigger warnings. 650 0 $a Memes. 830 0 $a Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103022233.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C752B7C74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search