Culture, humanities & social science
Life-Destroying Diagrams
By Eugenie Brinkema, associate professor of literature
Duke University Press · 2022
In "Life-Destroying Diagrams," Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to formal logics of torture and cruelty, violence and finitude, friendship and eros, debt, and care.
From Summer 2022 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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