Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism.

Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere…

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