Ngai takes Schlegel to be the first advocate of a type of art that is cool (emotionally and ideologically unattached), low affect, and particular (as opposed to concerned with the absolute or universal or infinite or total)
Ngai takes Schlegel to be the first advocate of a type of art that is cool (emotionally and ideologically unattached), low affect, and particular (as opposed to concerned with the absolute or universal or infinite or total)