When Forms Fall Apart: An Introduction -- Facing the Faceless: Modernism, War, and the Work of Disfiguration -- Curves that Break the Frame: On the Relentless Absorption of the Wallpaper Pattern -- How Text Becomes Diatext: Gemini and Performativity of the Garbage Dump -- The Portrait of Absence, or, When the Empty Chairs Get Crowded -- Coda: Affective Compounds Make a Media Excess
Summary
"Explores the theoretically fertile concept of the formless as articulated by modern literature and visual arts, and argues that instead of an elimination of form the formless stands for an affective operation based on both aesthetically and speculative generative deformation of forms"-- Provided by publisher
