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Is Marx (Capital) Secular?
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Wendy Brown Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Is Marx (Capital) Secular?
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Money is the alienated ability of mankind.
—Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Religion is only the illusory sun about which man revolves so long
as he does...
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How the Critique of Heaven Confines the Critique of the Earth
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 217–245.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Mohamad Amer Meziane Abstract This essay examines the effects of the critique of religion on the critique of capital and how the former confines the latter. It asks: What remains of the concepts of alienation or fetishism if they all stem from an anthropology of religion that seems to be criticized...
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Totality in a Box: The Shipping Container from Commodity to Allegory
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and represents, however, is not the whole of a frictionless and seamless accumulation of capital but a nonsynchronous, polemical, and critical totality of struggle and antagonism. Sekula turns the shipping container from a stand-in for a system of commodity circulation to an allegorical sign of the continuing...
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Notes on Atmosphere
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 121–155.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and manipulating atmospheres in retail and commercial settings has become a feature of contemporary capitalism, the essay discusses the political potential of “organizing a climate” via the case of the recent indignados movement in Spain. The essay suggests that atmospheres can play an important role in opening up...
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What Is Critique?: A Conversation with Eva Illouz
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 167–179.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Elisa Russian Abstract In this interview the Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz retraces her relationship to critical theory from the 1980s to the present. The conversation explores the reasons behind Illouz’s initial reluctance to adopt a critical stance toward capitalism, her rediscovery...
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Abolish the Oikos : Notes on Incapacity from Antiquity to Marxist Feminism, Black Feminism, and Afro-pessimism
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 199–243.
Published: 01 June 2023
... argues that the collapse of race into a form of “reduced capacity,” like class or gender, is the way antiblackness articulates itself for political economy, but the slave’s incapacity cannot then be reducible to capital or critical reconfigurations of social reproduction. The oikos , in this reading...
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Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 395–428.
Published: 01 December 2023
... truly be “really subsumed” under capital. The article concludes by pondering the political dimension to these theories of autonomy, which mirror in important ways debates within communization circles over subsumption, programmatism, and the aesthetics of revolution. 20. Adorno, “Culture Industry...
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Reorienting Visual Reading: From Colonial Visions to the Subtexts “Facing Us”
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 189–229.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the Arab and Muslim world) to Cameroon, thus stressing her protagonists’ uneasy positioning within the colonizer-colonized, West-East divides and connecting Zionist racialization to broader, global processes of colonial capitalism. By exploring her elaborate readings of photographs in the novel, the essay...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Marxism that, concomitant with major shifts in global capitalism, set the scene for subsequent scholarly accounts of culture that have privileged the fragment, the supplement, the remainder, the site, the margins, and the like over against the totality. The second part consists of an analysis of two works...
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Ordinary Expectation: Failure on the American Scene
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 June 2024
... : Cambridge University Press , 1995 . Bourgois Philippe , and Schonberg Jeffrey . Righteous Dopefiend: Selling Crack in El Barrio . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . Case Anne , and Deaton Angus . Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism . Princeton...
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Literature and Totality: Kritik durch Darstellung and the Crisis of Literary Production in the Twenty-First-Century Gig Work Novel
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... Lukács, Theory of the Novel , 93 . See also Flint, “Victorian Novel and Its Readers,” which presents a picture of reading publics very different from the one this essay presumes. References Abazari Arash . Hegel’s Ontology of Power: The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism...
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Dispossession and Totality
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 267–283.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as a category of critical theory” that “may serve to mediate between critiques of capitalism and colonialism” among contemporary scholars and activists ( TIP , 4). However, as the history of critical theory testifies, a theoretical focus on dispossession comes with a certain risk. Much of the rest...
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If Meaning, Shaped Reading, and Leslie Scalapino's Way
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 December 2001
... another Today, in the eerily silent land-
scape of post-election America, we can understand the new
president's joke as an expression of what we might call, if we felt up
to the wink and the nod, the holy trinity of the resurgent American
Right: free-market capitalism...
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Spectres of Christ: Love, Christianity, and the Political in Slavoj Žižek's The Fragile Absolute
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 201–218.
Published: 01 December 2001
... felt up
to the wink and the nod, the holy trinity of the resurgent American
Right: free-market capitalism, neo-imperialist militarism, and fun-
damentalist Christianity. As I write this essay, the television trum-
pets news of a regressive tax cut, an increase in pay...
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From Fetish to Totality: The Work of Art in the Age of Real Abstraction
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 245–266.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., homogeneous time of capital. Under capitalism, life is worth only what the value form can procure from social time after having constituted itself on the dead labor of the living. Socially necessary labor time, as contained in the commodity form, is translated into money in a transactional moment in which...
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Staging the Speculative: On Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 521–538.
Published: 01 December 2018
... allude. I have attempted only to offer a representative sketch of the genre or movement, drawing on certain exemplary works. 8. Robinson’s Science and the Capital series, like New York 2140 , deals largely with the impacts of global warming and is frequently held up as exemplary in the emerging...
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Sovereign Anxieties and Neoliberal Transformations: An Introduction
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 3–34.
Published: 01 June 2014
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inextricable. If we want to understand how powers are reconfi gured
by the debt economy, we must fi rst of all establish the links between
economics and politics.
—Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of Indebted Man
During the 2008 fi nancial collapse, the concomitance of fi nancial
capital...
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Insert into Blankness: Poetry and Cultural Memory in Benjamin's Baudelaire Interpretation
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 97–130.
Published: 01 December 2007
... motives poets have
for writing poetry.
—Walter Benjamin'
It is the singular achievement of Walter Benjamin's late texts
on Baudelaire to have sketched for us one possible way that the
subject might get through capital, one way that it (or "we") might...
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In the Face of Whiteness as Value: Fall-Outs of Metropolitan Humanness
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 143–182.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of cheap sexualized labor to attract foreign
— largely U.S. — capital investment.' In 1980, the time of the no-
vella's writing as well as of its setting, the Philippine economy was
more tied to international financial institutions than ever, having
become dependent...
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The Symptomatological Imagination: On Cultural Analysis as Historical Diagnosis
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 41–74.
Published: 01 June 2023
... on rehabilitating another interwar historiographical construct: Werner Sombart’s “late capitalism.” We are told: “A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism. Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also late capitalism.” What...
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