Aliza Shvarts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aliza Shvarts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aliza |
| FAMILY NAME | Shvarts |
| SIGNATURE | SHVARTS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Living Labor
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1 1To live and to labor are the twinned impe
The Con
A con, or confidence game, formulates a future that will not come to bear. As the sociologist Erving Goffman describes in "On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure" (1952), a con involves the triangulated interaction of several roles: the con artist or operator, who sets the plan in motion; the sucker or mark, who is the con's victim; and, most importantly, the cooler, who ensures that the mark not go to the police or take o…
Troubled air
This article examines aesthetic legacies and gendered histories of reproductive labor in the long, slow, reverb-heavy performances of the contemporary metal band SunnO))). Summoning aesthetic concepts of mimesis and sublimity, SunnO)))'s unique droning compositions suggest that the claim of "being metal" is bound up with the imperative of "bearing metal" - bearing in the sense of surviving as well as delivering forth. SunnO)))'s practice recalls …
Figuration and failure, pedagogy and performance
Living Labor
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1 1To live and to labor are the twinned impe
Troubled air
This article examines aesthetic legacies and gendered histories of reproductive labor in the long, slow, reverb-heavy performances of the contemporary metal band SunnO))). Summoning aesthetic concepts of mimesis and sublimity, SunnO)))'s unique droning compositions suggest that the claim of "being metal" is bound up with the imperative of "bearing metal" - bearing in the sense of surviving as well as delivering forth. SunnO)))'s practice recalls …
Figuration and failure, pedagogy and performance
The Con
A con, or confidence game, formulates a future that will not come to bear. As the sociologist Erving Goffman describes in "On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure" (1952), a con involves the triangulated interaction of several roles: the con artist or operator, who sets the plan in motion; the sucker or mark, who is the con's victim; and, most importantly, the cooler, who ensures that the mark not go to the police or take o…
Troubled air
This article examines aesthetic legacies and gendered histories of reproductive labor in the long, slow, reverb-heavy performances of the contemporary metal band SunnO))). Summoning aesthetic concepts of mimesis and sublimity, SunnO)))'s unique droning compositions suggest that the claim of "being metal" is bound up with the imperative of "bearing metal" - bearing in the sense of surviving as well as delivering forth. SunnO)))'s practice recalls …
Living Labor
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1 1To live and to labor are the twinned impe
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)