Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

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• Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmod... Lees meer

The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

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• Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate ... Lees meer

Time-Fetishes

Ned Lukacher

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• For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "discover" the truth of time, to determine whether time is infin... Lees meer

Entertaining the Third Reich

Linda Schulte-Sasse

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• In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that ... Lees meer

The Story of Stone

Jing Wang

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• In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition-all concerning stones endowed with magical properties-Jing Wan... Lees meer

Lines of Flight

Stefan Mattessich

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• For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism-the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and spe... Lees meer

Tokens of Exchange

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• The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translat... Lees meer

Socialist Realism without Shores

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• Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism-an aesthetic that, contrary to expectation... Lees meer

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism

Roberto Schwarz

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• A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz's renowned study of the work of Brazilian n... Lees meer

The Space In-Between

Silviano Santiago

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• Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially ... Lees meer

Working Fictions

Carolyn Lesjak

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• Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for th... Lees meer

The Revival of Pragmatism

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• Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent vie... Lees meer

Anomalous States

David Lloyd

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• Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern... Lees meer

Exhaustion of Difference- PB

Alberto Moreiras

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• The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exha... Lees meer

Post-Fascist Fantasies

Julia Hell

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• Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics ... Lees meer

Essay on Exoticism

Victor Segalen

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• The "Other"-source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the... Lees meer

Subalternity and Representation

John Beverley

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• The term "subalternity" refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, a... Lees meer

The Jamesonian Unconscious

Clint Burnham

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• Imagine Fredric Jameson-the world's foremost Marxist critic-kidnapped and taken on a joyride through the cultural ephemera, generational hype, and Col... Lees meer

The Rhetoric of Empire

David Spurr

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• The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk abou... Lees meer

Still Life in Real Time

Richard Dienst

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• Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last lingerin... Lees meer

Against Normalization

Anthony O'Brien

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• At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans... Lees meer

Apprehending the Criminal

Marie-Christine Leps

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• In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discou... Lees meer

Postmodernism and Japan

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• Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri,... Lees meer

Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

Xudong Zhang

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• In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics , Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tianan... Lees meer