Post-postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of just-in-time capitalism / Jeffrey T. Nealon.
By: Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas) [author.]
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BookPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012Description: xii, 227 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804781459.Other title: Cultural logic of just-in-time capitalism.Subject(s): Culture -- Economic aspects -- United States | Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Post-postmodernism -- United StatesDDC classification: 149.97 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 149.97 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00196146 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-223) and index.
Culture and economics. Post-postmodernism : periodizing the 80s : the cultural logic of economic privatization in the US -- Intensity : empire of the intensities : a random walk down Las Vegas Boulevard -- Commodity : the song remains the same : on the post-postmodern economics of classic rock -- University : the associate vice provost in the gray flannel suit : administrative labor and the corporate university -- Theory going forward. Interruptive excursis : re-reading : on the hermeneutics of situation in Nietzsche and Adorno -- Deconstruction : post-deconstructive? : Negri, Derrida and the present state of theory -- Interpretation : the swerve around P : theory after interpretation -- Literature : can literature be equipment for post-postmodern living? -- Coda : liberal arts : not your father's liberal arts : humanities theory in the post-post future.
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. -- Publisher's website.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. vii)
- Preface: Why Post-Postmodernism? (p. ix)
- Section I Culture and Economics
- 1 Post-Postmodernism. Periodizing the '80s: The Cultural Logic of Economic Privatization in the US (p. 1)
- 2 Intensity. Empire of the Intensities: A Random Walk down Las Vegas Boulevard (p. 25)
- 3 Commodity. The Song Remains the Same: On the Post-Postmodern Economics of Classic Rock (p. 43)
- 4 University. The Associate Vice Provost in the Gray Flannel Suit: Administrative Labor and the Corporate University (p. 66)
- Section 2 Theory Going Forward
- Interruptive Excursus: Rereading. On the "Hermeneutics of Situation" in Nietzsche and Adorno (p. 87)
- 5 Deconstruction. Postdeconstructive? Negri, Derrida, and the Present State of Theory (p. 113)
- 6 Interpretation. The Swerve around P: Theory after Interpretation (p. 126)
- 7 Literature. Can Literature Be Equipment for Post-Postmodern Living? (p. 146)
- Coda: Liberal Arts. Not Your Father's Liberal Arts: or, Humanities Theory in the Post-Post Future (p. 171)
- Notes (p. 195)
- Works Cited (p. 213)
- Index (p. 225)