... In this chapter, Sbriglia takes up Slavoj Žižek’s recent call to shift our mode of ideology critique from the “symptomatic” to the “fetishistic” as a means of revamping the outmoded practices of politically engaged literary criticism. Conceding that advocates and practitioners of recently...

... This essay argues that the 1990s reconjoining of China to world history through the “reorienting” or recentering of the Chinese economy in global economic history is a pure ideology of neoliberal normativity. Excavating the earlier moment in the 1930s, when Chinese history originally...

...Cultural Critique and Ideology ...

... Slavoj Žižek fetishism fetishistic reading symptomatic reading ideology critique ...

... Slavoj Žižek ecocriticism ecology ideology critique R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) ...

... Rooney argues that symptomatic reading distinguishes itself from the broader traditions of philosophical critique and ideology critique through its emphases on the productivity of reading, the shifting problematics every reader confronts in the form of the other reader, and the “surprise...

... from the broader traditions of philosophical critique and ideology critique through its emphases on the productivity of reading, the shifting problematics every reader confronts in the form of the other reader, and the “surprise” that emerges from the work of form and renders the reader herself...

... an organic/machinic confrontation that puts the future of human and posthuman ecologies alike at stake. Slavoj Žižek ecocriticism ecology ideology critique R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) ...

... New Historicism historicity universality interpellation In this chapter, Sbriglia takes up Slavoj Žižek’s recent call to shift our mode of ideology critique from the “symptomatic” to the “fetishistic” as a means of revamping the outmoded practices of politically engaged literary criticism...