Category: Volume 23 – Number 3 – May 2013
Notes on Contributors
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Ulka AnjariaUlka Anjaria is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (Cambridge University Press, under contract). Her articles have appeared in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of South […]
Thinking Feeling Contemporary Art
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Catherine Zuromskis (bio) University of New Mexico zuromski@unm.edu Review of Jennifer Doyle, Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke UP, 2013. In the summer of 2004, toward the tail end of my graduate studies, I spent six weeks at Cornell University, attending the School of Criticism and Theory. There […]
Styled
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Jordan Alexander Stein (bio) Fordham University jstein10@fordham.edu Review of Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2013. Camp Sites advances the beautifully counterintuitive argument that the midcentury US university’s transition between the consensus liberalism of the 1950s and the New Left radicalism of the 1960s was […]
Žižek Now! or, a (Not So) Modest Plea for a Return to the Political
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Russell Sbriglia (bio) University of Rochester russell.sbriglia@rochester.edu Review of Jamil Khader and Molly Anne Rothenberg, eds., Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies. Malden: Polity, 2013. At the precise midpoint of Slavoj Žižek’s The Ticklish Subject stands a trenchant critique of the contemporary “post-political” landscape. According to Žižek, postmodern post-politics doesn’t so much “merely […]
Neoliberalism in New Orleans
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Ruth Salvaggio (bio) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill salvaggi@email.unc.edu Review of Vincanne Adams, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina. Durham: Duke UP, 2013. “This book is not about Katrina. It is about Americans who have managed to survive a second-order disaster … about the effects of privatizing […]
The Persistence of Realism
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Ulka Anjaria (bio) Brandeis Universityuanjaria@brandeis.edu Review of Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism. New York: Verso, 2013. Against the myriad negative definitions of realism advanced by scholars—realism as not naturalism, romance, modernism—Fredric Jameson suggests a dialectical model in which realism emerges by means of its opposites: at one end, from récit, “the […]
From Graph
| September 10, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 3, May 2013 |
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Value: One’s self cannot be anywhere [Recording 1053-1920-vol23-iss3-Graham-audio1.mp3 here]Recording 1. “Value.” © K. Lorraine Graham. Used by permission. Today I am worth $1,744.69 Today I am worth $1,557.07 Today I am worth $964.63 Today I am worth $886.52 Today I am worth $402.00 Today I am worth $302.52 Today I am worth $1,742.38 Today I […]
“Today I am worth”: K. Lorraine Graham’s Graph
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Judith Goldman (bio) The State University of New York at Buffalo judithgo@buffalo.edu In The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato presents “the increasing force of the creditor-debtor relationship” in the world remade by financial capitalism since the late 1970s (23). “Debt acts as a ‘capture,’ ‘predation,’ and ‘extraction’ machine on the whole of […]
Undead-Ends: Zombie Debt/Zombie Theory
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Fred Botting (bio) Kingston University F.Botting@kingston.ac.uk Abstract This essay examines the ways in which contemporary economic discourse uses the zombie metaphor. It situates these uses in relation to the current resurgence of zombies in popular fiction and film, and distinguishes zombies from vampires: while the former signifies global debt and stagnation, the latter connotes […]
False Economy
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Martin McQuillan (bio) Kingston University M.Mcquillan@kingston.ac.uk Abstract When we speak of the credit crunch of 2008-14, we are really referring to a debt crisis. Far from the aberrant outcome of an economic failure, however, debt is a necessary condition of all economy. This essay opens up the present banking crisis through a reading of […]
The Debt of the Living
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Samuel Weber (bio) Northwestern University s-weber@northwestern.edu Abstract Listening to a tape recording of Paul de Man’s Cornell Messenger Lectures on a ride from Paris to Strasbourg, the author found himself unable to determine if de Man was saying “debt” or “death.” This confusion, and Walter Benjamin’s sketch, “Capitalism as Religion,” together provide the point […]
What We Owe to Retroactivity: The Origin and Future of Debt
| September 1, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 23 - Number 3 - May 2013 |
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Simon Morgan Wortham (bio) Kingston University S.Morganwortham@kingston.ac.uk Abstract This essay examines recent writings on debt, notably those by Maurizio Lazzarato and David Graeber. I ask whether Graeber’s Debt: the First 5000 Years is able to resist the insidious logic of a retroactive interpretation of debt that it seeks to overturn. Meanwhile, Lazzarato’s notion of […]
Politics of the Debt
| July 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 3, May 2013 |
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Étienne Balibar (bio) Kingston University Columbia University eb2333@columbia.edu Abstract This essay attends to the specifics of the debt economy within contemporary finance capital: its production of profit, credit, money, taxes, and derivatives; its control of institutions and its organizational techniques; its relation to the State, to banks, to industry, to labor, and to consumption; […]
Introduction
| July 18, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 23, Number 3, May 2013 |
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Martin McQuillan(bio) m.mcquillan@kingston.ac.uk Simon Morgan Wortham(bio) s.morganwortham@kingston.ac.uk “In the midst of life we are in debt,” as Peter Cook and Dudley Moore quipped. There is an urgency today to think about debt and its implications for human and planetary life, from the ongoing aftermath of the global financial crisis, through the legacies and […]