Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen -- 2 Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality -- 3 The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime -- 4 Of Fake and Real Sublimes -- 5 "Black and Glittering": The Inscrutable Sublime -- 6 Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity -- 7 Recentering the Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches -- 8 Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime -- 9 The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime -- 10 From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime -- 11 Feeling Not at Home in the Twenty-First-Century World: The Sublimein Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics -- 12 The Sublime as a Mode of Address in Contemporary EnvironmentalPhotography -- 13 Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema -- 14 Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime -- 15 The Birds and the Bees -- List of Contributors -- Index