Introduction: We Halcyonians -- Motifs of physical capital and bodily transformation -- Eternity and the body -- Fictional bodies of the Great Depression -- The dean's laughing fit -- The road to Kotka at night -- The aesthetics of limbo -- Window babies -- Surplus and sacrifice -- This animal which is not one -- Dialectics at an impasse -- (In)conclusion: on the evanescent
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"Subjects considered in this book include the films of Charlie Kaufman and Stan Brakhage, the fiction of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, the feminist art criticism of Lucy Lippard, and the meanings of virtuality and the internet"-- Provided by publisher
