... . mary poovey The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability? In the fall of 1999, I co-taught a graduate course on the future of U.S. universities. We addressed a number of volatile topics...

...'' [``Competition Law and Culture''] . Rekabet Bülteni [Competition Bulletin] 8 ( 2002 ). http://escrc.com/article/1415/rekabet-bulteni . Çağlayan İhsan . Rekabet Hukukunda Pazar Gücünün Önemi ve Ölçülmesi [Importance and Measurement of Market Power in Competition Law] . Ankara : Turkish...

...Dierdra Reber This essay seeks to explain the persistent representation of affect and the senses in the cultural narrative of globalization. The author proposes that we are currently witnessing an epistemic shift from reason to affect, a shift that may be traced to the birth of free-market...

... of the in-fungible. Spirit is that which has no value in any market of fungibles. The value of the products that workers of the spirit produce has nothing to do with their value in the market; from the point of view of the capitalist market, the labor of these workers is a sheer waste of time. The capitalist market...

...Li Xiaojiang This essay is Li Xiaojiang’s response to Tani Barlow’s “Socialist Modernization and the Market Feminism of Li Xiaojiang” (ch. 6 of Barlow’s The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism ). Barlow, in discussing Li Xiaojiang’s work in the 1980s, wholly overlooked the key article...

... and translatability that literary theory continues to exist today, but it does so only as a discreet background in the contemporary discourse of world literature, linked to the contemporary processes of signifying art only through its market and entertainment value. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of exotopy...

... differentiation of state capitalism as the era of ideology and market capitalism as the era of commodity fetishism, this new theory argues that biopolitical mechanisms are organized around the transhistorical prohibition of self-referentiality—a prohibition that constitutes the very precondition for any society...

...Mikkel Krause Frantzen This article reads William Gaddis’s 1975 novel J R as a way of probing the relation between finance and fiction in the 1970s, showing that the novel is related to the revolution of the junk bond market in the 1970s and 1980s, as personified by the junk bond king, Michael...

... a considerable role in both Lem’s polemic and in his fictional response, raising questions of genre (and its dependence on the market and the entertainment industry), of subjective agency (and its philosophical and political implications), and of artistic ingenuity vis-à-vis despotic power. Although Lem’s...

... of language. In the last twenty to twenty-five years, the return to philology has been a dominant part of the Anglo-Saxon discourse of “world literature,” which has turned away from theory. The return to philology is captured in a market-based adaptation of literature in terms of globalization...

... to trafficking in migrant laborers. The article posits a model of salability, based on disposable life and recycled humanity, where entry into the market as either subject or object is the condition of survival in the modern security regime. Against a terrain of precariously asserted and suspended subjectivity...

..., the question of the rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey presents a major paradox. On the one hand, the undocumented migrants' lack of right to residence, work, and social security intensifies their vulnerability in the flexible, predominantly informal labor market. On the other hand, rights claims risk...

... to traditional Confucian thought, one reflected in the work of the prolific author and cultural entrepreneur Li Yu (1611-80). Given his imbrication in both traditional networks of elite men and in the increasingly important realm of the market economy, Li Yu provides a useful entry point into the analysis...

... culture, Li Yugang has won the recognition of both market and mainstream cultures, successfully adding a modern edge to the traditional art. Like reality television shows in the West, Li Yugang’s cross-dressing performances tend to use sensationalism to attract viewers and to increase advertising revenue...

...Gustavo Dessal This essay argues from a Lacanian perspective that capitalism’s current modality promotes a perverted ideal of liberty as an unrestricted acceptance of the prerogatives of the market. The decomposition and decline of the paternal function, a phenomenon through which psychoanalysis...

...Mary Poovey Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Agnew Jean-Christophe . Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550–1750 . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1986 . Aho James...

... might seem overdetermined. The Second Republic was bequeathed boundaries drawn by the arbitrary if not entirely capricious violence of British colonial planning and an economy with extreme dependency on the vicissitudes of the international oil market, which had come to constitute nearly 80 percent...

... are advertised and marketed. This process, in which debt goes quickly from pleasure to boredom to pain, requires a larger eschatology, a longer horizon of redemption and salvation in which the production of quotidian debt is secured against the pain of endless payments. This is where life after debt needs...

... But fashion photography did not become what it is today until the fashion journal went mainstream - that is, middle class pursuing post-war baby boomers for a bigger than ever piece of the magic market pie. like those baby boomers, it has evidenced of late a certain tension, 78 Figure 2: Deborah Turbeville...

..., a kind of nearsightedness that constructs this whole new world as small and cultural difference as consumable. Perhaps nowhere is this universalizing myopia more conspicuous than in the production, marketing, and consumption of Barbie dolls. By MatteI's reckoning, Barbie enjoys 100 percent brand name...