Jordan Schonig
Biographic Data
| ID | 279055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan Schonig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schonig |
| SIGNATURE | SCHONIG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3554-6631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laborious Aesthetics
This article explores the ‘laborious aesthetics’ of the Spider-Verse films, a set of animation techniques that highlight and romanticize the laboriousness of the franchise’s animation style. These techniques, including hand-drawn effects, stylistic variation, single-frame aesthetics, and sequences of industrial reflexivity, create an impression of creative abundance that invites forensic levels of scrutiny – such as frame-by-frame analysis – from…
The Pornification of Everything
Introduction In recent years, the word “porn” has been increasingly used as a kind of descriptive suffix in aesthetic categories like “food porn”, “nature porn,” “trauma porn”, and “inspiration porn”. Some scholars in Porn Studies have commented on the phenomenon as a notable expansion of the concept of porn, noting the striking fact that almost none of the porn-suffix categories contain representations of sex. Thus, an obvious puzzle emerges: wh…
Rethinking #thedress
The social media phenomenon known as #thedress, a photograph of a dress that appeared to be either blue and black or white and gold, has been called one of the most viral debates of the twenty-first century. While many scientific explanations have been offered to explain the image’s mysterious color ambiguity, this article analyzes #thedress as an example of a broader genre that I call viral ambiguity illusions , images or sounds that can be perc…
Technics
The Key Debates series was launched in 2010 with the aim of revisiting "the central issues that continue to animate thinking about film and audiovisual media," which we have now done across ten volumes.All of these have followed a pattern of reexamining foundational texts and issues, while also investigating new lines of transmission and interpretation.Our book series' dual interest in foundations and novel lines of inquiry is demonstrated by the…
The haecceity effect
Humphrey Bogart pauses to look up at a sign while walking across the street in The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946); Lauren Bacall clutches and unclutches her chair in the background of a scene in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948); Jeffrey Hunter attempts to leap onto John Wayne’s horse, then seemingly levitates for an instant in The Searchers (John Ford, 1956); a bowling pin twirls, pauses, then falls – as if to its death – in Scarface (Howard Hawks, …
Liking” as creating
Social networks and media hosting sites have recently fostered a growing trend in meme culture: the circulation of images within strangely specific categories of pleasure such as the “oddly satisfying” and the “mildly interesting.” Difficult to define but collectively recognized, what I call aesthetic category memes are made up of images of ordinary things and processes that not only exemplify such categories of pleasure, but also provoke reflect…
Liking” as creating
Social networks and media hosting sites have recently fostered a growing trend in meme culture: the circulation of images within strangely specific categories of pleasure such as the “oddly satisfying” and the “mildly interesting.” Difficult to define but collectively recognized, what I call aesthetic category memes are made up of images of ordinary things and processes that not only exemplify such categories of pleasure, but also provoke reflect…
Liking” as creating
Social networks and media hosting sites have recently fostered a growing trend in meme culture: the circulation of images within strangely specific categories of pleasure such as the “oddly satisfying” and the “mildly interesting.” Difficult to define but collectively recognized, what I call aesthetic category memes are made up of images of ordinary things and processes that not only exemplify such categories of pleasure, but also provoke reflect…
The haecceity effect
Humphrey Bogart pauses to look up at a sign while walking across the street in The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946); Lauren Bacall clutches and unclutches her chair in the background of a scene in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948); Jeffrey Hunter attempts to leap onto John Wayne’s horse, then seemingly levitates for an instant in The Searchers (John Ford, 1956); a bowling pin twirls, pauses, then falls – as if to its death – in Scarface (Howard Hawks, …
The Pornification of Everything
Introduction In recent years, the word “porn” has been increasingly used as a kind of descriptive suffix in aesthetic categories like “food porn”, “nature porn,” “trauma porn”, and “inspiration porn”. Some scholars in Porn Studies have commented on the phenomenon as a notable expansion of the concept of porn, noting the striking fact that almost none of the porn-suffix categories contain representations of sex. Thus, an obvious puzzle emerges: wh…
Rethinking #thedress
The social media phenomenon known as #thedress, a photograph of a dress that appeared to be either blue and black or white and gold, has been called one of the most viral debates of the twenty-first century. While many scientific explanations have been offered to explain the image’s mysterious color ambiguity, this article analyzes #thedress as an example of a broader genre that I call viral ambiguity illusions , images or sounds that can be perc…
Technics
The Key Debates series was launched in 2010 with the aim of revisiting "the central issues that continue to animate thinking about film and audiovisual media," which we have now done across ten volumes.All of these have followed a pattern of reexamining foundational texts and issues, while also investigating new lines of transmission and interpretation.Our book series' dual interest in foundations and novel lines of inquiry is demonstrated by the…
Laborious Aesthetics
This article explores the ‘laborious aesthetics’ of the Spider-Verse films, a set of animation techniques that highlight and romanticize the laboriousness of the franchise’s animation style. These techniques, including hand-drawn effects, stylistic variation, single-frame aesthetics, and sequences of industrial reflexivity, create an impression of creative abundance that invites forensic levels of scrutiny – such as frame-by-frame analysis – from…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Key (lock (2 works)