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For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists - Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (Paperback)
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For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of
departure two profound and interrelated phenomena. The first is the
pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called "capitalist
realism", in which (to cite the famous expression variously
attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Zizek) it is easier to
imagine the end of the world than then end of capitalism. As
Jameson in particular has noted, "perhaps this is due to some
weakness in our imaginations," and the attenuation of the
imaginative function in cultural criticism has far-reaching
implications for the organization and reformation of institutions
more generally. This manifests itself as a waning of speculative or
theoretical energy, which in turn leads to a general capitulation
to the tyranny of "what is," the actually existing state of
affairs, and the preemptive disavowal of alternative possibilities.
Connected to this is the second phenomenon: the prevalent tendency
in literary and cultural criticism over the past 30 or more years
to eschew critical theory and even critique itself, while
championing approaches to cultural study that emphasize surface
reading, thin description, ordinary language philosophy,
object-oriented ontology, and post-critique. Together these forms
of anticritical and antitheoretical criticism have constituted a
tendency that has in its various incarnations come to dominate the
humanities and other areas of higher education in recent years. The
latter has served to reinforce the former, and the result has been
to align literary and cultural criticism with the broad-based
forces of neoliberalism whose influence has so deleteriously
transformed not only higher education but the whole of society at
large. Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that, in order to counter these
trends and empower the imagination, the time is ripe for "a
ruthless critique of all that exists," to borrow a phrase from the
young Marx. This book is intended as a provocation, at once a
polemic and a call to action for cultural critics.
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