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The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 531–539.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of
this historical resistance is that it forced the capitalist mode of production to
change the method by which it extracted surplus value from living labor within
the production process. Cooperative worker resistance forced down the length of
the working day, compelling the CMP to abandon the method...
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Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle... and Other Tales of Counterglobalization
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 540–545.
Published: 01 September 2004
... worker
resistance during the early years of the industrial revolution. The significance of
this historical resistance is that it forced the capitalist mode of production to
change the method by which it extracted surplus value from living labor within
the production process. Cooperative worker...
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Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 546–550.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of
this historical resistance is that it forced the capitalist mode of production to
change the method by which it extracted surplus value from living labor within
the production process. Cooperative worker resistance forced down the length of
the working day, compelling the CMP to abandon the method...
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Selections from Workers and Capital
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 337–352.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., as a process which proceeds within its substance and forms its
content. (Marx 1973: 304)
Surplusarbeitszeit [Surplus labor time]:
If one day’s work were necessary in order to keep one worker alive for one day,
then capital would not exist...
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Sketches of Autonomy: Capitalist Subsumption and Working-Class Resistance in Alan Sillitoe's Early Fiction
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 435–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
... is . . . a transformed form of surplus-value, a form in which its
origin and the secret of its existence are veiled and obliterated. In point of fact, profit is the form of
appearance of surplus-value. . . . In surplus-value, the relationship between capital and labour is laid
bare. In the relationship between...
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“Paradise Actually Exists”: Biopolitics and Utopian Praxis in William S. Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 171–197.
Published: 01 July 2014
... . “Surplus Common.” In In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics , by Casarino Cesare Negri Antonio , 1 – 41 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . De Man Paul . 1979 . Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke...
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“Kill the Monster!”: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters and the Big, Ambitious (Graphic) Novel
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
...-expanding globality . . . can express itself within the limited formal resources of the novel.” Not knowing how to feel about this surplus of information, Robbins has suggested, may be precisely what this surplus of information is trying to articulate. Robbins draws attention to how Wood's coupling...
FIGURES
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Materials for a Subversive Constitutionalism
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 155–160.
Published: 01 July 2013
... obliga-
tion” is unacceptable, thereby reducing to pulp important parts of our texts on
constitutional law. The referendum vote today enjoys a surplus of constitutional
legitimation that superordains it for a reasonable period of time in the matters
on which the vote was taken with respect...
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Negri's Untimely Spinoza
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 145–153.
Published: 01 July 2013
... criteria, because it has its norm in itself. A pure event,
it happens beyond all relation. Thus it obeys not a logic of surpassing but one of
excess that, taken at its source, is an overflowing and the production of a surplus,
an excess that eludes every attempt at recuperation. This is what Negri...
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“The Only Way Out Is Through”: Space, Narrative, and Utopia in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 135–163.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the
function of the folktales, which collectively define a kind of supplement that
stubbornly exceeds the structural bonds of the novel and, in so doing, recalls
Bloch's notion of Utopian expression as the surplus (or "undischarged hope-
content") that likewise exceeds the structural constraints...
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“It Is I Who Have the Power”: Settling Women in Haggard's South African Imaginary
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 359–393.
Published: 01 December 2012
...).
Assuming roles unavailable to them in the metropole, these colonial heroines
extend their own position, even as they extend that of the empire that so often
limits them.
The Presence of Women
Not long after the 1851 British census revealed “a statistical surplus of women” (Dre-
her 1993, 3...
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Care and the Common
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., and identification with the
“commodity,” the “company,” the “product.”
Bia Sarasini (2012) grasps in “care” a surplus that remains beyond the pos-
sibility of commodification or the unpaid fulfillment of an obligation. The fact
that it is difficult to commodify a smile, a particular attentiveness, a caress...
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Against the Discipline of “Prison Writing”: Toward a Theoretical Conception of Contemporary Radical Prison Praxis
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 407–428.
Published: 01 September 2002
...-Keynesian corporate state, and massive containment of surplus popula-
tions. Melucci's challenge, in this context, sheds some theoretical light on the
role of radical prison intellectuals as primary critics of the anti-social relation-
ships embodied in the prison apparatus which, as a central...
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Are Memoirs Autobiography? A Consideration of Genre and Public Identity
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 483–504.
Published: 01 September 2004
... that the supplementarity of writ-
ing is dangerous for language. Why would this be? Derrida says that this is the
case in Rousseau's thinking because "the supplement adds itself, it is a surplus, a
plenitude enriching another plenitude, the fullest measure of presence. It cumu-
lates and accumulates presence" (144...
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“This Hyeh Is a Mighty Cruel Country”: Owen Wister's The Virginian , the Western Genre, and the Question of Animal Cruelty
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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2024
... into which twentieth-century Americans could redirect their interspecies benevolence while also accruing a spiritual surplus value. The Virginian caters to this emerging sentimental paradigm. Under the guise of a swashbuckling narrative about tough horsemen of the plains, it offers its readers a tender...
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Narrative Desolation and Postcolonial Naturalism in V. S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 December 2017
... seedlings which, as fast as they were set
in their dusty little holes, quailed and drooped” (14). Here there can be neither
parodic appropriation nor ironic surplus. Narrative and history have reached an
ignominious and inevitable finality.
The End of History; or, “No One Will Do Anything New...
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Genre (2005) 38 (4): 327–352.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., however, is the US government's economic interest in opening the world's
markets for US motion pictures. After all, with entertainment as one of the few
US-based industries consistently running a trade surplus, the US government
must take seriously the export issues surrounding global media...
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Noir (Masculine Noun): Jean-Patrick Manchette, Alain Delon, and the Politics of French Hard-boiled Masculinity
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
... junctures. By insisting on the humiliation that accompanies Terrier’s social
status, Manchette positions him firmly in the older tradition of working-class
hard- boiled masculinity to better suggest how this surplus of individuation erodes
the fantasy of hypermasculine self- sufficiency. Terrier...
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“Written in Disorder”: John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle and “The Big Strike”
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2009
... their own discipline, the radical
masses produce the communist future, not surplus value. Their labor power
ceases to be expropriated by capitalist production. Mac's instructions to London,
the strike leader who will speak over Joy's bier, aim clearly at the creation of a
radical collective...
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“Clearer Than Real”: A History of Mediated Realities in Pynchon's Against the Day
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
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to light and its capacity to create a set of lived fictions in terms of perception
and time, Merle’s final settlement in Hollywood, the place that will come to pro-
duce mass fiction in its stages known as dream factories, proves inevitable in an
economy that runs on surplus value. Reality, in other...
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