Thomas Phillips 
The Subject of Minimalism 
On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming

Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic.

Table of Content

Introduction 1. Stirrings of Discontent: A Theoretical Context 2. Becoming Fiction: Sarraute, Stein, Hemingway 3. Carver, Sarraute, Toussaint 4. Echenoz, Fabre, De Lillo 5. Lights Camera Action 6. ‘Mark the Music’: Microsound and Becoming-Silence 7. The Masochistic Body 8. The ‘Somaesthetic’ Turn: Becoming-Minimal 9. On Virtue, Verbs, and the Virtual Conclusion and Post Script: On Being Able

About the author

Thomas Phillips is an English Lecturer at North Carolina State University, USA.