Cultural Critique

Editors: John Mowitt, Cesare Casarino and Simona Sawhney

The path-breaking journal of cultural criticism.

Cultural Critique provides a forum for creative and provocative scholarship in the theoretical humanities and humanistic social sciences. Transnational in scope and transdisciplinary in orientation, the journal strives to spark and galvanize intellectual debates as well as to attract and foster critical investigations regarding any aspect of culture as it expresses itself in words, images, and sounds, across both time and space. The journal is especially keen to support scholarship that engages the ways in which cultural production, cultural practices, and cultural forms constitute and manifest the nexus between the aesthetic, the psychic, the economic, the political, and the ethical intended in their widest senses. While informed by the diverse traditions of historical materialism as well as by the numerous critiques of such traditions from various parts of the globe, the journal welcomes contributions based on a variety of theoretical-methodological paradigms.

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Race, Periphery, Reification: Speculations on “Hybridity” in Light of Gilberto Freyre’s Casa-grande & senzala

Recentering Political Theory: The Promise of Mobile Locality

The Novel of Universal Peace

Rejecting Friendship: Toward a Radical Reading of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship for Today

Foxhounds, Curs, and the Dawn of Breeding: The Discourse of Modern Human–Canine Relations

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Disruptive Spectatorship: A Review of The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Rancière
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Aesthetics and the Political: An Essay on Francis Alys’s Green Line

Bartleyby’s Autism: Wandering along Incommunicability

Are Your Children Old Enough to Learn about May ‘68? Recalling the Radical Event, Refracting Utopia, and Commoning Memory

Ridiculous Trauma: Comic Representations of the Nazi Past in Contemporary German Visual Culture

To Conquer Anonymous: Authorship and Myth in the Wu Ming Foundation

The Signifying Professor: The Arrest of Textuality
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The Mothership Connection

Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island

Governing European Markets: Tolerance and Guilt in the Discourse of “Muslim Women”

Framing Theory: Toward an Ekphrastic Postcolonial Methodology

Combining Uneven Developments: Louis Zukofsky and the Political Economy of Revolutionary Modernism

Seeing is Digesting: Labyrinths of Historical Ruin in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

Corpse and Accomplice: Frederic Jameson, Raymond Chandler, and the Representation of History in California

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Specters of the Dialectic Valences of the Dialectic by Frederic Jameson
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Food, Waste, and Judgment on Mount Everest

The Discursive and Narrative Foundations of Scandal

From Fictional Capital to Capital as Fiction: Globalization and the Intellectual Convergence of Business and the Humanities

The Political Theory of the Cliche: Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann

American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity

War Is for the Birds: Birding Babylon and the “Military-Industrial-Environmental Complex”

China in Theory: The Orientalist Production of Knowledge in the Global Economy

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On the Sacred in African Literature: Old Gods and New Worlds by Mark Mathuray
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Four Fundamental Myths Of Postmodern Thought (Or, The Eclipse of the Gaze)

Coordinating Contemporaneity: (Post) Modernity, 9/11, and the Dialectical Imagery of Memento

Tumults of Utopia: Repetition and Revolution in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy

Tracking the Bugchaser: Giving The Gift of HIV/AIDS

Publication, Knowledge, Merit: On Some Politics of Editing

Managing the Crisis: James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces and the Addict-Subject Confession

Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen and translated by Rodney Livingstone

Politicking Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention by Paul Bowman

How Poetic Poetic Acts & New Media by Tom O’Connor

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Social Philosophy after Adorno by Lambert Zuidervaart
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Foreword: Classical Reception and the Political

Part I. Politics of Reception

Can Political Theory Provide a Model for Reception? Max Weber and Hannah Arendt

A Classical Politics without Happiness? Hannah Arendt and the American Revolution

Philoctetes in the Bastille

Reception and Receptivity in Catullus 64

The Laius Syndrome, or the Ends of Political Fatherhood

The Sexual Politics of Translating Prometheus Bound

Odysseus and the Wandering Jew: The Dialectic of Jewish Enlightenment in Adorno and Horkheimer

Afterword: The Future of Past Received

Part II. Sovereignty

Iam Tum (nowthenalready): Latin Epic and the Post-Historical

Part III. Representation

Knowledge and the Political: Bruno Latour’s Political Epistemology

Part IV. Desire

History as Group Fantasy

Part V. Performance

Theatre Festivals, Total Works of Art, and the Revival of Greek Tragedy on the Modern Stage

Part VI. Enlightenment

Greeks, Jews, and the Enlightenment: Moses Mendelssohn’s Socrates
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The Color of Confidence: Racial Con Games and the Logic of Gold

Quieting the Noise Belly: Moving, Eating, and Being in the Vietnamese Diaspora

Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the “Peculiar” Status of Native Peoples

Stasis: Beyond Political Theology?

Review ofRegulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

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Review of Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos
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Deconstructing the Psychopath: A Critical Discursive Analysis

“The Thinking Man’s Filter:” J.L. Austin’s Ordinary Language Philosophy as Cultural Criticism”

Global English Ideography and the Dissolve Translation in Hollywood Film

From Fictive Ability to National Identity: Disability, Medical Inspection, and Public Health Regulations on Ellis Island”

The “Vox Populi,” or the Infernal Propaganda Machine, and Juridical Force in Colonial India

“Ponte aquí al lado”: Ekphrasis and Deception in Ana Rossetti’s and José Duarte’s Simparidades

Review of Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain

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Review of Andrew Hoborek’s Twilight of the Middle Class
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Drugs in Motion: Toward a Materialist Tracking of Global Mobilities

Talking about the Flow: Drugs, Borders, and the Discourse of Drug Control

Standards, Populations, and Difference

Coffee as a Social Drug

Kava: An Old Drug in a New World

Regulation In Spite of Prohibition: The Control of Cannabis Distribution in Amsterdam

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath

The Pleasures of Horror by Matt Hills

An Ever-Expanding Inclusiveness: Bending over Backwards by Lennard Davis

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Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity by Shannon Jackson
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“In the long run we are all dead”: Imaginary Time in Financial Market Narratives

Stepford U.S.A.: Second-Wave Feminism, Domestic Labor, and the Representation of National Time

The Art of Colonial Despotism: Portraits, Politics, and Empire in South India, 1750-1795

Angels Visit the Scene of Disgrace: Melancholy and Trauma from Sebald to Benjamin and Back

The Exact Sense in Which the Culture Industry No Longer Exists

On Being Shaken: Theodor W. Adorno on Sublimation

“Not Yet”: Adorno and the Utopia of Conscience

Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno by Robert Hullot-Kentor

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“Do you know what it will look like?” On the Relevancy of Adorno’s Theory of Society

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Philosophy of New Music by Theodor W. Adorno and Roll Over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media by Robert Miklitsch
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Radical Conservative Thought in the Intellectual Constellation of the Early Federal Republic

Reflections on War and Peace after 1940: Ernst Jünger and Carl Schmitt

Ernst Jünger: A Dialectician of Treason

From Gestalt to Ge-Stell: Martin Heidegger Reads Ernst Jünger

Adjusting (to) the Federal Republic: The Geopolitical Turn in Heidegger's Aesthetics after 1945

Heidegger, Schmitt, Strauss: The Hidden Monologue, or, Conserving Esotericism to Justify the High Hand of Violence

Sovereign Right and the Global Left
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Hardboiled Disillusionment: Mahagonny as the Last Culinary Opera

From Penal Institution to Shopping Mecca: The Economics of Memory and the Castle of Punta Carretas

Making Modernity: Inside the Technological Space of the Railway

Argentine Military Terrorism (1976-1983): Insatiable Desire, Disappearances, and Eruption of the Traumatic Gaze-Real in Alejandro Agresti’s Film Buenos Aires Viceversa (1996)

Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity with Edmund Burke

Derrida’s Chinese Prejudice

(Not) at Home in (Hindu) India: Shahid Amin, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and the Critique of History

Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

“Who’s the Guy?”

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Atlantic Modernity and the Wreckage of History Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History by Ian Baucom and The British Slave Trade and Public Memory by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
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Introduction

Edward Said’s Literary Humanism

Worldless Affairs

Edward Said and Marxism: Anxieties of Influence

A New “Copernican” Revolution: Said’s Critique of Metaphysics and Theology

Between Humanism and Late Style

Foreigners among Citizens

Of Land Mines and Cluster Bombs

Edward Said: A Contrapuntal Reading
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Virus Discourse: The Rhetoric of Threat and Terrorism in the Biothriller

Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War

The Event of the Black Body at Rest: Mêlée in Motwon

Masculinity, Food and Appetite in Frank Chin’s Donald Duck and "The Eat and Run Midnight People"

Looking for Something Forever Gone: Gothic Masculinity, Androgyny, and Ethics at the Turn of the Millennium

Queer Theory in the First Person: Academic Autobiography and the Authoritative Contigencies of Visibility

Love, Lists, and Class in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity

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Queer Archives In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam
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Introduction: Cultures of Finance: When the Crisis, Which Was a Certainty, Becomes a Contingency

Death-Driven Futures, or You Can’t Spell Deconstruction without Enron

Marx’s Update of Cultural Theory

Uncertain Subjects of Anglo-American Financialization

Freedom, Ownership, and Social (In-)Security in the United States

Pricing Race, Circulating Anxieties, and the Fate of Malaya’s Currency Reserves at Independence

Underground Money

Debt and Denunciation in Post-bubble Japan: On the Two Freeters

Escape Artists: Germany, Fortress Europe, and the Situationist Rescripting of Travel
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Communal Narcosis and Sublime Withdrawal: The Problem of Community in Kant's Critique of Judgement

The Gap in Context: Giorgio Agamben's Remnants of Auschwitz

Home Is Where the Neurosis Is: A Topography of the Spatial Unconscious

Why We Shouldn't Be Bored with the Political Economy versus Cultural Studies Debate

Haiti, Guantánamo, and the "One Indispensible Nation": U.S. Imperialism, "Apparent States," and Postcolonial Problematics of Sovereignty

Invest in Jesus: Neoliberalism and the Left Behind Novels

Germany Is a Boy in Trouble
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The Feminization of Globalization

Shame, Ventriloquy, and the Problem of the Cliché in Caryl Phillips

Diego Rivera's Greater America: Pan-American Patronage, Indigenism, and H.P.

Postimperial Landscapes: "Psychogeography" and Englishness in Alan Moore's Graphic Novel From Hell: A Melodrama in Sixteen Parts

"Suffer a Sea Change": Spatial Crisis, Maritime Modernity, and the Politics of Utopia

When Signifiers Collide: Doubling, Semiotic Black Holes, and the Destructive Remainder of the American Un/Real

Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software by Matthew Fuller

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Malice by François Flahault
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Remembering the Past's Future: Anti-imperialist Nostalgia and Some Versions of the Third World

The Balkans: Europe's Cesspool

On Militancy, Sort Of

Fundamentalism Hot and Cold: George W. Bush and the "Return of the Sacred"

Interogating "Newness": Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Endless War

Modernity's (Yellow) Perils: Dr. Fu-Manchu and English Race Paranoia

Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique by Benita Parry

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Postcolonialism: A Historical Introduction by Robert J. C. Young
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The Future of the Research University and the Fate of the Humanities

Two Cheers for Aesthetic Autonomy

Knowing What We Are Doing: Time, Form, and the Reading of Postmodernity

"Mont Blanc" and the Sublimity of Materiality

Paranoia in the Age of the World Picture: The Global "Limits of Enlightenment"

Speculations on a New Economy: Le Femme Nikita, the Series

Violent Submission: Gendered Automobility

Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital, edited by Jani Scandura and Michael Thurston

Eros in Mourning, by Henry Staten

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Déjá Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory, by Peter Knapp
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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Welcome the Outlaw: Pirates, Maroons, and Caribbean Countercultures

Phantasmagoric Aesthetics: Colonial Violence and the Management of Perception

How Traumatized Societies Remember: The Aftermath of Argentina's Dirty War

Hannibal's Children: Immigration and Antiracist Youth Subcultures in Contemporary Italy

Reclaiming Left Baggage: Some Early Sources for Minority Studies

Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis

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Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism by Peter Hitchcock

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