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Crisis and Criticism
Literary, Cultural and Political Essays, 2009–2021
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 307
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Crisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming.
Benjamin Noys, DPhil (1998), University of Sussex, is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester. His publications include
The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2010),
Malign Velocities (Zero Books, 2014) and
The Matter of Language (Seagull, 2023).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Distance of Critique
2 Matter against Materialism
3 Apocalypse and Crisis
4 The Aesthetics of Crisis
5 Scale, Commodity, Totality
6 The Crisis of European Philosophy
7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles
8 Communisation and the End of Art
9 War and Communisation
10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson
11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism
12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism
13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark Fisher
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part 1 The Moment of Critique
1 The Distance of Critique
2 Matter against Materialism
3 Apocalypse and Crisis
Part 2 Crisis Culture
4 The Aesthetics of Crisis
5 Scale, Commodity, Totality
6 The Crisis of European Philosophy
Part 3 Crisis and Communisation
7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles
8 Communisation and the End of Art
9 War and Communisation
Part 4 Critical Figures
10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson
11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism
12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism
13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark Fisher
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Academics, postgraduates and students in literary, cultural, political and philosophical subjects with an interest in contemporary culture and how that culture has been shaped by capitalist crisis.