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Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live
in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural
logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from
charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s,
though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification
of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing
saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent
segments of everyday cultural life. If "fragmentation" was the
preferred watchword of postmodern America, "intensification" is the
dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism
surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its
analyses-everything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the
post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate
university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental
literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the
undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds
have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of
economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American
present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations
between economic production and cultural production today-when
American-style capitalism, despite its recent battering, seems
nowhere near the point of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism
is seldom late but always just in time. As such, it requires an
updated conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our
changed situation.
Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live
in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural
logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from
charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s,
though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification
of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing
saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent
segments of everyday cultural life. If "fragmentation" was the
preferred watchword of postmodern America, "intensification" is the
dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism
surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its
analyses-everything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the
post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate
university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental
literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the
undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds
have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of
economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American
present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations
between economic production and cultural production today-when
American-style capitalism, despite its recent battering, seems
nowhere near the point of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism
is seldom late but always just in time. As such, it requires an
updated conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our
changed situation.
In "Foucault Beyond Foucault" Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics
have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on
power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle
and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in Foucault,
Nealon argues that forms of political power remain central to
Foucault's concerns. He allows us to reread Foucault's own
conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we
might respond to the mutations of power that have taken place since
the philosopher's death in 1984. In this, the book stages an
overdue encounter between Foucault and post-Marxist economic
history.
In "Foucault Beyond Foucault" Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics
have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on
power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle
and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in Foucault,
Nealon argues that forms of political power remain central to
Foucault's concerns. He allows us to reread Foucault's own
conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we
might respond to the mutations of power that have taken place since
the philosopher's death in 1984. In this, the book stages an
overdue encounter between Foucault and post-Marxist economic
history.
This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools"
of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class.
It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more
difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.
Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each
with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and
deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its
examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and
advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and
opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to
theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear
and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to
struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's
relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common
sense. Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox
includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on
life and nature.
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