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The London Object - Writing London at the End of Capitalism (Hardcover)
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The London Object - Writing London at the End of Capitalism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Etienne Balibar writes that today we are at the end of capitalism.
This is not because capitalism has run its course or has met an
irresistible force, but because there can be no purer form of
capitalism than the one we have today. Taking seriously the idea
that this strain of capitalism has not only seized the urban
environment but is the urban environment, works by Michael
Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G.
Ballard are read as representative of a loosely allied group of
London writers who have anticipated, critiqued, and offered up
various avenues of resistance to the deleterious effects of this
most vigorous strain of capitalism. Writing on the city by charting
a politics of reconnection to the real that necessarily unsettles
the epistemological and ontological ground upon which both
modernity and capitalism sit, this stable of writers makes clear
the ways in which the sheer materiality of the urban environment
profoundly influences the being and thinking of individuals. In so
doing, these writers produce works which when read together give
the coordinates of an altermodernity that might just allow
capitalism to reach its final conclusion.
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