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"One Never Knew": David Foster Wallace and the Aesthetics of Consumption
Date: 2016-05-01
Creator: Jesse Ortiz
Access: Open access
- Increasingly, David Foster Wallace is becoming a cult figure among literary enthusiasts. His novels, essays, and short stories are all known for their poignant critiques of modern culture. Since his 2008 suicide, Wallace’s name has come to represent a way of thinking that rejects – and perhaps transcends – the hegemonic power of late capitalism. Wallace had a problem with pleasure. His writing often seemed to deflate or deconstruct what many people enjoy. For him, so much was “supposedly fun.” To understand Wallace’s relationship with pleasure, we must see how pleasure incorporates aesthetics and consumption. Wallace takes issue with the pleasure that comes from the aesthetics of cultural commodities. Irony produces pleasure, which turns culture into a desirable commodity. In my first chapter, I argue that Wallace’s essays challenge aesthetic pleasure by deconstructing self-reflexive irony. In his descriptions of consumer culture, Wallace evokes the feeling of disgust to undo the aesthetic pleasure of consumption. In my second chapter, I move to Infinite Jest to show how Wallace engages with irony while using it to exceed aesthetic pleasure. Infinite Jest challenges the hierarchy of aesthetics and suggests that deformity and waste can be beautiful and important. Infinite Jest demonstrates that, by trusting others instead of pursuing aesthetic ideals, people can build communities that are more honest and fulfilling than the pleasure of consumption.

Phenylisonitrile Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to Cobalt to Form a Catalyst for the Selective Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Colleen Hughes McAloon
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The identification and visualization of candidate early embryonic patterning genes in Bradysia coprophila This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Sarah Conant
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Promoter Choice in Transvection at the eya Gene of Drosophila melanogaster This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Victoria Dunphy
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Electrical Transport Properties of Graphene Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Nhi Nguyen
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Synthesis and Metalation of a Bifunctional Ligand for Hydrogen Activation This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Eliana Roberts
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When There's A Fire–Short Stories Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Zoë Ellis Wilson
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The Message, Medium and Messenger: A Study of Political Persuasion Through a Case Study of Planned Parenthood
Date: 2017-05-01
Creator: Jodi Leah Kraushar
Access: Open access
Bondi Accretion in Trumpet Geometries
Date: 2016-01-01
Creator: August J Miller
Access: Open access
- The Bondi solution, which describes the radial inflow of a gas onto a non-rotating black hole, provides a powerful test for numerical relativistic codes. However, this solution is typically derived in Schwarzschild coordinates, which are not well suited for dynamical spacetime evolutions. Instead, many current numerical relativistic codes adopt moving-puncture coordinates, which render black holes in trumpet geometries. Here we transform the Bondi solution into two different trumpet coordinate systems, both of which result in regular expressions for the fluid flow extending into the black hole interior. We also evolve these solutions numerically and demonstrate their usefulness for testing and calibrating numerical codes.

Early life adversity induces sex-specific behavioral changes and does not alter precocial neural recruitment in response to basolateral amygdala stimulation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Zackery D. Reynolds
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