Sianne Ngai

Biographic Data

ID311454
NAMESianne Ngai
GIVEN NAMESSianne
FAMILY NAMENgai
SIGNATURENGAI S
AFFILIATIONSService de Santé de la Jeunesse
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS115
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Introduction au mignon, au zinzin et à l'intéressant

    Sianne Ngai, Sara Alonso GómezARTICLEMultitudes2023

    Sara Alonso Gomez présente le début de sa traduction du livre de Sianne Ngai sur les catégories esthétiques. Trois nouvelles catégories semblent nécessaires à côté du sublime et du beau, pour rendre compte de la manière dont les expériences privées façonnent les discours esthétiques : le mignon qui renvoie à Adorno et à la consommation, le zinzin qui renvoie à Nietzsche et à la production, l'intéressant qui renvoie à Frédéric Schlegel et à la cir…

  • Cute

    Sianne NgaiBOOKCute2022

  • Theory of the Gimmick

    Open AccessSianne NgaiBOOKTheory of the Gimmick2020

    Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises of saving labor and increasing value that we distrust but also find attractive. Exploring the use of this form, Ngai shows how its aesthetic dissatisfactions reflect deeper anxieties about capitalism

  • Theory of the Gimmick

    Sianne NgaiARTICLECritical Inquiry2017Cited by: 9References: 1

    Previous articleNext article FreeTheory of the GimmickSianne NgaiSianne NgaiPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore1. Labor-Saving DeviceWhat are we as subjects of capitalist lifeworlds implicitly saying when we call something a gimmick, regardless of the inevitably varying objects to which the evaluation is applied and varying identit…

  • Comedy Has Issues

    Lauren Berlant, Sianne NgaiARTICLECritical Inquiry2017Cited by: 55References: 4

    Previous articleNext article FreeComedy Has IssuesLauren Berlant and Sianne NgaiLauren Berlant and Sianne NgaiPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePermanent CarnivalComedy's pleasure comes in part from its ability to dispel anxiety, as so many of its theoreticians have noted, but it doesn't simply do that.1 As both an aesthetic mode …

  • Visceral Abstractions

    Sianne NgaiARTICLEGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…2015Cited by: 5

    This essay reads a series of social or capitalist abstractions: the iconic smiley face; Karl Marx's notoriously tricky concept of abstract, value-constituting labor; and the "soldier's body" qua allegory of value in contemporary American poet Rob Halpern's book Music for Porn (2012). It argues that both Marx and Halpern rely on catachresis, a trope of "necessary and forced usage," to represent the material, synthetic effects of social abstraction…

  • Merely Interesting

    Sianne NgaiARTICLECritical Inquiry2008Cited by: 11References: 7

  • The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde

    Sianne NgaiARTICLECritical Inquiry2005Cited by: 30References: 3

  • Ugly Feelings

    Sianne NgaiBOOKUgly Feelings2004

    Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.

  • A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Voice

    Sianne NgaiARTICLEAmerican Literature2002Cited by: 2

    American Literature - Volume 74, Number 3, September 2002

  • Bad Timing (A Sequel). Paranoia, Feminism, and Poetry

    Sianne NgaiARTICLEdifferences2001

    differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies - Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2001

  • Moody Subjects Projectile Objects

    Sianne NgaiARTICLEQui Parle2001

    Research Article| December 01 2001 Moody Subjects Projectile Objects: Anxiety and Intellectual Displacement in Hitchcock, Heidegger, and Melville Sianne Ngai Sianne Ngai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 15–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.12.2.15 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…

  • Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Females, and Other Bad Examples

    Sianne NgaiARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…2001Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Stuplimity

    Open AccessSianne NgaiARTICLEPostmodern Culture2000

    Postmodern Culture - Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000

  • How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman

    Aviva Briefel, Sianne NgaiARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1996Cited by: 2

    Research Article| January 01 1996 "How much did you pay for this place?" Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman Aviva Briefel; Aviva Briefel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sianne Ngai Sianne Ngai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-1_37-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…

  • Marxism and Form

    Fredric Jameson, Sianne NgaiBOOKMarxism and Form1974