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Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past
and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a
rich variety of case studies. Much as the complexities of climate
change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and exclusions
of literary representation, so, too, have the challenges recently
presented by climate activism and intersectional environmentalism,
animal rights, and even the power of material forms, such as oil,
plastic, and heavy metals. Social and protest movements have
revived the question of whether there can be such a thing as an
activist ecocriticism: can such an approach only concern itself
with consciousness, or might it politicise literary criticism in a
new way? Attempting to respond, this volume coalesces around three
interrelated strands: material ecologies, past and present British
politics, and the act of writing itself. Contributors consider the
ways in which literary form has foregrounded the complexities of
both matter (in essays on water, sugar, and land) and political
economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice
movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how
life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and
autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political
realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal
experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by
focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine
the conditions and systems needed to do so?
Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of
ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the
significance of deserts and wastelands in literature since the
Romantics, he argues that the desert has served to articulate
anxieties over the cultural significance of space in the
Anthropocene. He explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning
that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and
Deleuze in their critiques of modernity. And he looks at how the
desert has been a terrain of desire over which the Western
imagination of space and place has range, in writings from T.S
Eliot to Don DeLillo, from imperial travel writing to
postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
The first study of Deleuze's critical and clinical project Aidan
Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion, that 'literature is an
enterprise of health', and shows how a concern of health and
illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his
earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with Guattari,
to his final, enigmatic statements on 'life'. He explains why
alcoholism, anorexia, manic depression and schizophrenia are key
concepts in Deleuze's literary theory, and shows how, with the turn
to schizoanalysis, literature takes on a crucial political and
ethical role in helping us to diagnose our present pathologies and
articulate the possibilities of a health to come. Key Features *
The first book length study of Deleuze's critical and clinical
project and the conceptualisations of health and illness he
developed over the course of his career * Uses the idea of the
literary clinic to unify Deleuze's literary theory with the
political critique he developed with Guattari, and argues in this
way for a distinctively Deleuzian critical practice * Draws on
Deleuze conceptualisations of health and illness to reassess his
relationship to key thinkers such as Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche,
Freud and Melanie Klein and literary figures such as Melville F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Kafka, Beckett and Artaud
Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of
ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the
significance of deserts and wastelands in literature since the
Romantics, he argues that the desert has served to articulate
anxieties over the cultural significance of space in the
Anthropocene. He explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning
that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and
Deleuze in their critiques of modernity. And he looks at how the
desert has been a terrain of desire over which the Western
imagination of space and place has range, in writings from T.S
Eliot to Don DeLillo, from imperial travel writing to
postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday
life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it
is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our
secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, 'I'
believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, 'it'
believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come
from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and
repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique
of capitalism proceed today? With the effects of the 2008 economic
crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings
together some of the most important contemporary voices in
philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory
together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and
broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.
In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their
collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the
world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of
groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a
diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science
fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has
transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for
upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an
interest in continental philosophy, literary theory and critical
and cultural theory, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature
is a cutting edge volume, featuring some of the most original
voices in the field, setting the agenda for future research.
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday
life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it
is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our
secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, 'I'
believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, 'it'
believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come
from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and
repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique
of capitalism proceed today? With the effects of the 2008 economic
crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings
together some of the most important contemporary voices in
philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory
together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and
broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.
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