How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now
Author:   Rebecca Colesworthy (New York University, New York, USA) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University, New York, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138294974


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   16 June 2017
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Author:   Rebecca Colesworthy (New York University, New York, USA) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University, New York, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138294974


ISBN 10:   1138294977
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   16 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: Capital’s abstractions 1. ‘Paradise falls: a land lost in time’: representing credit, debt and work after the crisis 2. To think without abstraction: on the problem of standpoint in cultural criticism 3. Materialism without matter: abstraction, absence and social form 4a. An exchange with Susan Stewart 4b. Abstraction set 5. From capitalist to communist abstraction: The Pale King’s cultural fix 6. The bodies in the bubble: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King 7. Shareholder existence: on the turn to numbers in recent French theory

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Rebecca Colesworthy is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at New York University, New York City, USA, and holds an English Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. She has published a number of articles on literature, theory, and gender studies, and is currently completing a manuscript on modernism and the gift. Peter Nicholls is Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University, New York City, USA. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995, 2009), George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2007, 2013), and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He has recently co-edited On Bathos (2010) and Thinking Poetry (2013).

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