This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present.

Part I Void/ Introduction/ 1 Race and Other Voids/ 2 Talking Politics in the Fertile Void/ Part II Medium/ 3 Medium upon Matter/ 4 Medium upon Medium/ Part III Void as Medium/ 5 Melvillean Aesthetics, Postwar Post-politics/ 6 Dumb Blankness Full of Meaning/ Conclusion/ Bibliography/ Index

Matt Tierney is Assistant Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA