Abstract:This essay offers a comparative reading of the post-Marxian work of Jean Baudrillard and François Laruelle, arguing that both thinkers seek to establish a way forward for theory that remains faithful to the spirit of Marxism without reaffirming dialectics. In order to do so, both turn to the concept and strategy of "fiction." Their fictionalized Marxian theory intervenes in reality in the form of writing without reaffirming the dialectical presumption that the Real and concept can be exchanged. To fictionalize Marxism in non-dialectical terms repudiates the logic of exchange, enabling us to think against capital in non-capitalist terms.
{"title":"Fictionalizing Marx, or Towards Non-Dialectics: Baudrillard and Laruelle","authors":"Jonathan Fardy","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay offers a comparative reading of the post-Marxian work of Jean Baudrillard and François Laruelle, arguing that both thinkers seek to establish a way forward for theory that remains faithful to the spirit of Marxism without reaffirming dialectics. In order to do so, both turn to the concept and strategy of \"fiction.\" Their fictionalized Marxian theory intervenes in reality in the form of writing without reaffirming the dialectical presumption that the Real and concept can be exchanged. To fictionalize Marxism in non-dialectical terms repudiates the logic of exchange, enabling us to think against capital in non-capitalist terms.","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48210867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"This book … of traces and tremors, if book it be\": A review of Michael Taussig, Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown","authors":"Cory Austin Knudson","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42028120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay argues that, after studying law, Clarice Lispector never abandoned her engagement with political theory, and shows that her fiction and chronicles were a continuation of her philosophy of law by other means. Lispector developed an epistemology of ignorance through the analysis of two key social practices: "choreographies of consent" and "orchestrated oblivion." In light of a 1941 article published in a law school journal, the essay traces the development of Lispector's increasingly complex conceptions of law and examines how she adapted them when historical events forced her to confront willful ignorance as a pervasive condition of possibility for the social reproduction of injustice.
{"title":"Choreographies of Consent: Clarice Lispector's Epistemology of Ignorance","authors":"Rocío Pichon-Rivière","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that, after studying law, Clarice Lispector never abandoned her engagement with political theory, and shows that her fiction and chronicles were a continuation of her philosophy of law by other means. Lispector developed an epistemology of ignorance through the analysis of two key social practices: \"choreographies of consent\" and \"orchestrated oblivion.\" In light of a 1941 article published in a law school journal, the essay traces the development of Lispector's increasingly complex conceptions of law and examines how she adapted them when historical events forced her to confront willful ignorance as a pervasive condition of possibility for the social reproduction of injustice.","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48653864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reasons for Self-Dislocating: A review of Luciana Cadahia and Ana Carrasco-Conde (editors), Fuera de sí mismas. Motivos para dislocarse","authors":"Miriam Jerade","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":"30 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66300400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fanged Future: A review of Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction","authors":"Johanna Isaacson","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47493594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
[...]what ties the collection together is an insistence that the politics of (enforced) debt is part of a long history of the political erosion of public support in favor of high finance, and that this bad history has come to a head since 2008. [...]under neoliberalism, crisis itself is actively wielded as a tool by corporate and financial elites" (3). Goodchild begins with The South Sea Company as a case study to explain what he calls "the debts of politics" (a tweak on the volume's title), and to show how private debts in the form of taxation and investment—and sovereign authority based in credit (the promise of returns)—come to mutually reinforce each other in a system that relies on the regulatory functions of the banks. For Goodchild, this spells a crisis of faith: "Once the circle of reliable debtors shrinks to a few state, corporate and financial institutions, then it no longer offers a source of prosperity and longer time horizons for the populace at large" (72).
{"title":"Neoliberalism in Crisis: A review of The Politics of Debt: Essays and Interviews, edited by Sjoero Van Tuinen and Arjen Kleinherenbrink","authors":"C. Mickalites","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0003","url":null,"abstract":"[...]what ties the collection together is an insistence that the politics of (enforced) debt is part of a long history of the political erosion of public support in favor of high finance, and that this bad history has come to a head since 2008. [...]under neoliberalism, crisis itself is actively wielded as a tool by corporate and financial elites\" (3). Goodchild begins with The South Sea Company as a case study to explain what he calls \"the debts of politics\" (a tweak on the volume's title), and to show how private debts in the form of taxation and investment—and sovereign authority based in credit (the promise of returns)—come to mutually reinforce each other in a system that relies on the regulatory functions of the banks. For Goodchild, this spells a crisis of faith: \"Once the circle of reliable debtors shrinks to a few state, corporate and financial institutions, then it no longer offers a source of prosperity and longer time horizons for the populace at large\" (72).","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48916555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay argues that Pascal Laugier's 2008 new-extremist horror film Martyrs generates a formal violence coextensive with the aesthetic fascinations that structure it, rendering an account of violence that is monstrative and creative. Reversing theoretical presumptions that horror is a mixed sentiment comprised of fascination and disgust, or that horror names a fascination with violence, the essay positions Martyrs as part of an alternative philosophical lineage that posits a fascination with form itself constitutes a mode of violence. Martyrs cinematically demonstrates the impersonal, non-embodied violence of a fascination with formal possibility, one shared by horror and metaphysics.
{"title":"The Violence of a Fascination with* a Visible Form (on Martyrs, Cruelty, Horror, Ethics) [*on and vs. with vs. as]","authors":"E. Brinkema","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that Pascal Laugier's 2008 new-extremist horror film Martyrs generates a formal violence coextensive with the aesthetic fascinations that structure it, rendering an account of violence that is monstrative and creative. Reversing theoretical presumptions that horror is a mixed sentiment comprised of fascination and disgust, or that horror names a fascination with violence, the essay positions Martyrs as part of an alternative philosophical lineage that posits a fascination with form itself constitutes a mode of violence. Martyrs cinematically demonstrates the impersonal, non-embodied violence of a fascination with formal possibility, one shared by horror and metaphysics.","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42182402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay offers a commentary on the French experimental director Philippe Grandrieux's shooting diary for his film Malgré la nuit (2016). Grandrieux's quotations from Maurice Blanchot and the diary's appearance in the journals Trafic and Mettray activate intertextual references relating to Blanchot's ideas about fascination and inspiration. The essay argues that Grandrieux and film theorist Raymond Bellour are contemporary inheritors of these notions, which they develop in relation to filmmaking practice, cinema spectatorship, and film analysis. Through their work, fascination, often associated with passivity, can be seen to actively inspire new works.
{"title":"Circuits of Fascination and Inspiration: Blanchot, Bellour, Grandrieux","authors":"Calum Watt","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay offers a commentary on the French experimental director Philippe Grandrieux's shooting diary for his film Malgré la nuit (2016). Grandrieux's quotations from Maurice Blanchot and the diary's appearance in the journals Trafic and Mettray activate intertextual references relating to Blanchot's ideas about fascination and inspiration. The essay argues that Grandrieux and film theorist Raymond Bellour are contemporary inheritors of these notions, which they develop in relation to filmmaking practice, cinema spectatorship, and film analysis. Through their work, fascination, often associated with passivity, can be seen to actively inspire new works.","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49152644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:During the half century of his writing, Leo Bersani has worked toward an onto-ethics/aesthetics of fascination in which cinema plays an important part. With the help of Proust, Sade, Caravaggio, Pasolini, and others, he outlines two modes of fascination: the spectator's active exploration and evisceration of an enigmatic world, and his passive receptiveness to the world's nonsignifying forms. Bersani proposes that these modes of cinematic fascination exemplify regimes of modern subjectivation, the ways in which we are taught to become who we are in our encounters with the world.
{"title":"Accompanying Images: Leo Bersani and Cinematic Fascination","authors":"M. Tuhkanen","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the half century of his writing, Leo Bersani has worked toward an onto-ethics/aesthetics of fascination in which cinema plays an important part. With the help of Proust, Sade, Caravaggio, Pasolini, and others, he outlines two modes of fascination: the spectator's active exploration and evisceration of an enigmatic world, and his passive receptiveness to the world's nonsignifying forms. Bersani proposes that these modes of cinematic fascination exemplify regimes of modern subjectivation, the ways in which we are taught to become who we are in our encounters with the world.","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45703459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What We Don't See in What We See: A Response to Cinema and Fascination","authors":"Ackbar Abbas","doi":"10.1353/pmc.2020.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2020.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55953,"journal":{"name":"POSTMODERN CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48265732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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