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By Nick Salvato

ISBN-10: 0822360845

ISBN-13: 9780822360841

ISBN-10: 0822360985

ISBN-13: 9780822360988

Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell truly open up paths to creativity and unforeseen insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato means that for these engaged in scholarly goals laziness, digressiveness, and comparable studies could be sarcastically generative. instead of being brushed aside as stumbling blocks, those obstructions are to be embraced, clung to, and reoriented. reading an eclectic variety of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics and Denis Diderot to Dean Martin and the internet sequence Drunk History, Salvato unearths price in 5 obstructions: embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness. no matter if hearing Tori Amos's song so one can take into consideration embarrassment, linking the MTV sequence Daria to utilizing cynicism to barter greater education's corporatized weather, or reading the impact of slowness in Kelly Reichardt's motion pictures, Salvato expands our conceptions of every obstruction and indicates how you can remodel them into priceless provocations. With a distinct, literary, and self-reflexive voice, Salvato demonstrates the significance of those debased obstructions and indicates how they might help substitute modes of highbrow job. In doing so, he impels us to reconsider the very meanings of pondering, paintings, and value. 
 
 

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