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... in the discourse arise because political economists are speaking “the language of commodities.” In this sense, Marx's “science” is the practice of translation. Building on the grounding insight that scientific knowledge descends into ideology by misrecognizing the correct terrain of its concepts, Marx's writings...

... con- stitution of reality. Appearing in a world of commodities, each commodity “betrays [verrät] its thoughts in a language with which it alone is familiar, the commodity-language­ [der Warensprache]” (C, 143; translation slightly modified).28 Eavesdropping on a conversation between one...

... in this word Malay, as it is used here, is the work of the commodity regime that has carved out a space of common measure through which the opium-eater can identify the stranger as if he were a familiar. In a broader sense, peoples, customs, languages are now become so many collective idiosyncrasies...

...: Critical Encounters with The Arcades Project was provoked by the 1999 English- language translation of Walter Benjamin’s monumental Das Passagen- Werk, the most legendary work of the most legendary of twentieth-century...

... for renewed analyses of the contemporary writer and the printed book. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Henry Veggian 1. Commodities...

... Baudelaire, A Lyric Poet in the Age of High Capitalism,is, more than ten years after its discovery by Giorgio Agamben, still readable— in any language—only in a kind of samizdat version: to read Benjamin’s book draft, one...

.... The language of measure simultaneously describes and reorganizes land, labor, collective subjects, and historical change. The immigrant student or subject of instruction in Kim s earlier poems here almost completely vanishes into a matrix of legal codes, commodities, geometric spatial forms, and ancient...

... Dillion ( 2022 : 9–10) looks to this grammar of meaning making to understand how, paradoxically, the sexual exploitation of enslaved peoples cannot be expressed through the language of the law. 12. This is a play on Spillers's ( 1987 : 65) “marked woman.” 13. These anxieties underwrite...

...Paul A. Bové Criticism should take on board the traditions of Blackmur, Auerbach, and Said to deal philologically and lovingly with the human history recorded and created in the use of language. Poetry especially is the vestibule for critics who understand that categorical and conceptual knowledge...

... the Frankfurt School and its affiliates, who teach us that classical epistemology—the subject-object epistemology of German idealism—is the commodity in cognitive form. Now what does this mean? The most orthodox Marxism will tell us that there are two ways of looking at the commodity-object: you can view...

... of incompatible and inconsolable languages, making for Frankensteinian collages. Once upon a time, I gave this a name: dysraphism . Dysraphism is a fantasy of the poetry of the Americas. We come into a new world burdened, butchered, bewitched by the old. With every spark of light, and they are infinite, we...

... in Nabhadas’s Sri Bhakta- mal (Lucknow: Tejkumar Press, 1969). The lack of consistent dates and details of Meera’s life, as well as the problem of authenticating compositions attributed to Meera, is inter- preted differently by Hindi-language scholars as compared to English-language transla- tors...

..., and financial reasons in new departments. 2 Next on my list is the high theory moment, which shattered English departments and the other national language departments as well, especially German and the Romance language departments, often finding a home in comparative literature. 3 Many theory...

... need to recognize that the very language of alternatives and multiplicity is enabled historically by the presupposition of a common modernity shaped by a globalizing capitalism It is now necessary for us to recognize Chi- neseness as a fluid concept and to enact a critical inquiry...

... pace of life, the rapid transitions of modern media, the press of commodities and their programmed obsoles- y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 61 of 224 cence, and so on. At the same time, it is a covert measure of the ability to perform new...

... calls “the structure of commodity-relations which removes all possibility of self-identity and stability. According to Lukács, a full-fledged capitalist society is where the structure of commodity-relations is no longer the “central problem in economics” but the central, structural problem...

... of ursprüngliche Akkumulation , precisely to the extent that it subjects individuals in a manner that forecloses the possibility of an alternative economic order. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 accumulation translation Marxism debt financialization Part 1: The Language of Capital...

... in this way: at the crossroads of commercial exchanges, in this temple of commodity fetishism that is a department store, the piano and the person who plays it both become the site for an economy of trans- actions. Or rather, and more precisely, the piano and its pianist appear henceforth...

... is as aesthetically masterful as it is analytically astute. Moreover, and despite being overshadowed by the spectral and specular melodrama of the chapter on the fetish-­character of commodities, “The Working Day” is particularly exemplary in its account of how abstrac- 1. Karl Marx, “The Working Day...

...” vocabu- lary of unity or commonality, purposeful inter-animation, aiming at “a kind of metonymic equivalence” taking place in an ever-globalizing telos of commodity-presencing. The trans-Pacific dedication of America’s global destiny to an “empire new” of unity and commonality...