@article{827538,
      recid = {827538},
      author = {Hoffmann, Christine.},
      title = {Stupid humanism : folly as competence in early modern and  twenty-first-century culture /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century  performances of stupidity that occur within social media as  echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist  writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of  humanism will associate it with copia—abundance of  expression—and the rhetorical practices essential to  managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a  synonym for copia, making the humanism of which copia is a  central element an inherently stupid philosophy. A  transhistorical exploration of stupidity demonstrates that  not only is excess still the surest way to eloquence, but  it is also just the kind of spammy, speculative undertaking  to generate a more generous and inventive comprehension of  human and nonhuman relationships. In chapters exploring the  rhetorics of memes, attack ads, public shaming blogs,  clickbait and gifs, Stupid Humanism outlines the  possibilities for a humanism less invested in the normative  logics that enshrine knowledge, eloquence and linear  development as the chief indicators of an active,  articulated selfhood and more supportive of a program for  queer knowledge, trivial pursuits, anti-social ethics and  the curious relationships that form around and in response  to abundance of expression.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/827538},
}