The etymological affinity between criticism and crisis has never
been more resonant than it is today, when social life is
increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping
global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises;
geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises. But
what is the role of literary and cultural criticism in
conceptualizing this atmosphere of perpetual crisis? If, as Paul de
Man maintained, criticism necessarily exists in a state of crisis,
in what ways is this condition intensified at a time when the
social formations within which criticism operates and the cultural
artefacts that it takes as its objects are themselves pervaded by
actual and imagined states of emergency? This book, the first
sustained response to these questions, demonstrates the capacity of
critical thought, working in dialogue with key narrative texts, to
provide penetrating insights into a contemporary landscape of
global, manufactured risk. Written by an international team of
specialist scholars, the essays in the collection draw on a wide
variety of contemporary theoretical, fictional, and cinematic
sources, ranging from Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Fredric
Jameson to Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, and Lauren Beukes to Ghost
and the James Bond and National Treasure series. Appearing in the
midst of a phase of extraordinary turbulence in the fabric of our
interconnected and interdependent world, the book makes a landmark
intervention in debates concerning the cultural ramifications of
globalization."
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