... the derivative that would account for its expansion and impact beyond profit-taking exchange or as a mere succession in an unbroken chain of evermore-effective regimes of accumulation. Here “logic” will need to be a point of departure, not closure or completion, a sensibility that draws things together...

...Max Haiven Abstract The last forty years of financialization have laid the groundwork for a resurgence of fascist cultural politics. This article expands Hito Steyerl's notion of derivative fascism by placing it in dialogue with Enzo Traverso's theory of postfascism and Randy Martin's exploration...

... University Press 2015 Randy Martin Knowledge LTD derivatives volatility Movement after Randy Martin Compiled and edited by May Joseph Prologue “Out of darkness would come light, if only we could see.” So wrote Randy Martin at the beginning of his last book, Knowledge LTD.1 In the space...

... Press 2018 finance cultures of finance derivatives risk In The Long Twentieth Century , Giovanni Arrighi argues that capitalism expands and contracts in cycles, moving from commodity production to finance before relocating to another power center. 1 For some, the shift from manufacture...

...Robert Meister The article develops political implications of the late Randy Martin’s idea of “derivative sociality” as the real subsumption of human life under the option form. The option form, beginning with the hedge, allows realized surplus value to be preserved (locked in) and eventually...

... used to synthesize or even resolve the conflicting conceptual apparatuses of postmodernism (a term derived from aesthetic, humanistic, and cultural methodological questions) and globalization (a term derived from political economic, social, and cultural methodological questions). By attending...

... of culture,” Tylor thought about the limits of his own will in such a way as to systematize those limits. Culture was, by definition, a self-organizing spirit, a system whose strength derived from bodies in space and whose materiality was severe in its organizational effect. Might this spirit remain quite...

...Rachel Jane Carroll Abstract This article unspools the history of nylon as a commodity between two Black feminist cultural expressions, Senga Nengudi's R.S.V.P. series and Audre Lorde's Zami . The first popular petroleum‐derived synthetic fiber, nylon was a crucial material in building what Dwight...

...Phillip Brian Harper Considering the intersections of theory, culture, and ideology in Social Text , this essay suggests that for all its interest in theory, the journal has never had a theory of theory, except for the proposition that insofar as theory explains practice it must derive from...

... important task to which capital sets the imagination in an age of financialization. Credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and the entire substance of the derivative are so complex that their very principles are hard for anyone except experts to grasp, and their causes and effects...

... in this intersection, in both senses of punk’s afterlives. As a derivative genre in which “emo” is short for “emotional hardcore punk,” and as an affective response to the normative masculinities circulating in punk’s supposed countercultural stance, emo, I suggest...

..., a fluctuation in the value of an entity that is isolated and placed in circulation, like a currency exchange rate or a targeted safe house. In finance, a derivative is a contract to buy stock or currency, or some other commodity...

..., the worker, and so forth) and build our political philosophy anew starting from the one and only figure of the refugee.”2 The proposal derives from a para- mount concern to counteract the increasing institutionalization of the state of exception throughout the political-juridical order...

..., however, the tsotsi is a word and has its origins in a word. It entered the polylinguistic space of urban South Africa sometime in the early 1940s. According to Peter Davis, it is derived from the term zoot suit, which was popularized...

...: but this is not because the close-up ‘is’ partial object; but because the partial object being that of the impulse then exceptionally becomes close-up. The impulse is an act which tears away, ruptures, dislocates. Perversion is therefore not its deviation, but its derivation, that is, its normal expression in the derived...

... an unprecedented and yet-to-be-equaled popular response from both domestic and international audiences is only an external indi- cator of the fi lm’s intense, riveting, cultural dynamism.5 What follows is based on the premise that the fi lm’s affective power derives mainly from the particular distentio animi...

... teaches media and cultural studies at the University of East London. She has published her research on digital cultures in New Formations, Science and Culture, Derive e approdi, and the on-line journal The Difference Engine. She is currently holding an Economic...

... and — ­I am loath to say — ­became highly infectious. In the early 1880s, Louis Pasteur fleshed out Koch’s initial parasitic intimations, providing some important missing details. Drawing on a well- ­known analogy (derived from humoral medicine) between fermentation and disease, as well...

..., that of the image. One could say that psychoanalysis was derived from the prolegomena of the emergent information economy’s restructuring of interiority and allowed the analyst to take the derivative of ambient information at a point in the garden of forking paths. 10 This derivative was of course the discourse...

... of communitarian positions that I have so far described in a somewhat undifferentiated way, ranging from the strong antimodernity stance of Ashis Nandy, who nostalgically conjures up a premodern vision of community derived from...