What keeps materialism moving? At a moment of crisis in
materialism, in the wake of materialist practice once known as
socialist revolution, this bold and innovative book presents
oscillation as a metaphor for understanding materialism anew.
Mindful of the dangers for materialism, Peter Hitchcock
nevertheless shows how oscillation is part of the conceptual
framework of materialist inquiry from Marx to the present.
A reply to the call to rethink the material constraints on
materialism itself, this book uses oscillation to refer
simultaneously to movement within and between bodies of theory,
within theories of the body, and within and between institutional
spaces in which such theory is taken up. Hitchcock argues that
oscillation augurs a politics that both shares the legacy of
historical materialism and recognizes the critical edge of cultural
materialism in its approach to the social practices of everyday
life. In a series of ingenious readings, he rethinks the problem of
ideology for Marx and his interpreters (Etienne Balibar in
particular); provides a materialist intervention on the status of
the body for theory; proposes an analysis of theories of space and
the space of theory in the era of "cartographic anxiety"; sees the
ghosts of materialism oscillating a good deal more wildly than
Derrida would have it; offers a daring approach to shoes and
fetishism within transnational capitalism; and concludes with a
novel lesson on what the theremin, an electronic musical instrument
based on oscillators, might teach us about the importance of sense
perception for materialist thought.
As both a descriptive device for the state of materialism and a
critical tool within a polemic about whatmaterialism can do at this
juncture, oscillation provides a brilliant key to materialist
critique.
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