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Rethinking the Frankfurt School - Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique (Paperback): Jeffrey T. Nealon, Caren Irr Rethinking the Frankfurt School - Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique (Paperback)
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Caren Irr
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A reexamination of key Frankfurt School thinkers -- Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse -- in the light of contemporary theory and cultural studies across the disciplines, Rethinking the Frankfurt School asks what consequences such a rethinking might have for study of the Frankfurt School on its own terms.

Elegy for Literature (Paperback): Jeffrey T. Nealon Elegy for Literature (Paperback)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
R814 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R135 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Plant Theory - Biopower and Vegetable Life (Paperback): Jeffrey T. Nealon Plant Theory - Biopower and Vegetable Life (Paperback)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is interested in how and why this is the case. Plant Theory turns to several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.

Plant Theory - Biopower and Vegetable Life (Hardcover): Jeffrey T. Nealon Plant Theory - Biopower and Vegetable Life (Hardcover)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
R2,738 Discovery Miles 27 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is interested in how and why this is the case. Plant Theory turns to several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.

Fates of the Performative - From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism (Hardcover): Jeffrey T. Nealon Fates of the Performative - From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism (Hardcover)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
R2,369 Discovery Miles 23 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austin's speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never merely concerned with linguistic meaning but rather constitutes an insight into the workings of immaterial force. Fates of the Performative takes a deep dive into this "performative force" to think about the continued power and relevance of this wide-ranging concept. Offering both a history of the performative's mutations and a diagnosis of its present state, Nealon traces how it has been deployed by key writers in the past sixty years, including foundational thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, and Judith Butler; contemporary theorists such as Thomas Piketty and Antonio Negri; and the "conceptual poetry" of Kenneth Goldsmith. Ultimately, Nealon's inquiry is animated by one powerful question: what's living and what's dead in performative theory? In deconstructing the reaction against the performative in current humanist thought, Fates of the Performative opens up important conversations about systems theory, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, and the digital humanities. Nealon's stirring appeal makes a necessary declaration of the performative's continued power and relevance at a time of neoliberal ascendancy.

Fates of the Performative - From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism (Paperback): Jeffrey T. Nealon Fates of the Performative - From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism (Paperback)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austin's speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never merely concerned with linguistic meaning but rather constitutes an insight into the workings of immaterial force. Fates of the Performative takes a deep dive into this "performative force" to think about the continued power and relevance of this wide-ranging concept. Offering both a history of the performative's mutations and a diagnosis of its present state, Nealon traces how it has been deployed by key writers in the past sixty years, including foundational thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, and Judith Butler; contemporary theorists such as Thomas Piketty and Antonio Negri; and the "conceptual poetry" of Kenneth Goldsmith. Ultimately, Nealon's inquiry is animated by one powerful question: what's living and what's dead in performative theory? In deconstructing the reaction against the performative in current humanist thought, Fates of the Performative opens up important conversations about systems theory, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, and the digital humanities. Nealon's stirring appeal makes a necessary declaration of the performative's continued power and relevance at a time of neoliberal ascendancy.

I'm Not Like Everybody Else - Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music (Paperback): Jeffrey T. Nealon I'm Not Like Everybody Else - Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music (Paperback)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop's music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central organizing use for the values of twentieth-century popular music: being authentic, being your own person, and being free. In short, not being like everybody else. Through a consideration of the shift in dominant modes of power in the American twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from what Michel Foucault calls a dominant "disciplinary" mode of power to a "biopolitical" mode, Nealon argues that the modes of musical "resistance" need to be completely rethought and that a commitment to musical authenticity or meaning-saying "no" to the mainstream-is no longer primarily where we might look for music to function against the grain. Rather, it is in the technological revolutions that allow biopolitical subjects to deploy music within an everyday set of practices (MP3 listening on smartphones and iPods, streaming and downloading on the internet, the background music that plays nearly everywhere) that one might find a kind of ambient or ubiquitous answer to the "attention capitalism" that has come to organize neoliberalism in the American present. In short, Nealon stages the final confrontation between "keepin' it real" and "sellin' out."

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