How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now

ISBN-13: 9781138294974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Rebecca Colesworthy; Peter Nicholls

Opis

Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied specialists to understand has been widely presupposed. How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now provides an indispensable counterpoint to the "economic turn" in the humanities, bringing together leading literary and cultural critics to reconsider the question of abstraction - an issue at the heart of the recent financial crisis, yet seldom addressed directly in the wealth of criticism to which it has given rise. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Spis treści

Introduction: Capital’s abstractions  1. ‘Paradise falls: a land lost in time’: representing credit, debt and work after the crisis  2. To think without abstraction: on the problem of standpoint in cultural criticism  3. Materialism without matter: abstraction, absence and social form  4a. An exchange with Susan Stewart  4b. Abstraction set  5. From capitalist to communist abstraction: The Pale King’s cultural fix  6. The bodies in the bubble: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King  7. Shareholder existence: on the turn to numbers in recent French theory

O autorze

Rebecca Colesworthy is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at New York University, New York City, USA, and holds an English Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. She has published a number of articles on literature, theory, and gender studies, and is currently completing a manuscript on modernism and the gift.

Peter Nicholls is Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University, New York City, USA. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995, 2009), George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2007, 2013), and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He has recently co-edited On Bathos (2010) and Thinking Poetry (2013).