...Jonathan Beller The programmatic erasure of the concept of capitalism by the state (here paradigmatically represented by the state of Texas) is allied with the waning of Fredric Jameson’s dialectical concept of postmodernism. “Postmodernism” as the critique of the cultural logic of late capitalism...

...Nico Baumbach; Damon R. Young; Genevieve Yue This interview was conducted with Fredric Jameson on 13 March 2014 in New York City and has been lightly edited for clarity. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of “Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” in...

..., and Nazi against colonial. But more important, the essay attempts to address a broader problem of concentrated modernity, in which the two camps become symptoms, products, and models of the world in the era of late capitalism. In the end, the essay, turning on itself, asks a principal (and troubling...

...Anna Marie Smith Duke University Press 2001 ST.05 Smith 5/24/01 5:54 PM Page 103 Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault BUTLER AND FRASER ON CAPITALISM AND...

...,practices, and strategies in Pakistan . Lahore: Shirkat Gah. Exposed by Pakistani Street Theater THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF POSTMODERN CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, AND FUNDAMENTALISM The main...

... contemporary modes of biocommodification to show their likely denouement in dystopian futures. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Biohazard The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism Ashley Dawson Faced with declining rates of profit and the dysfunction of the neoliberal economic policies...

... capital’s hegemonic form of social mediation, has rushed. As autonomist thinkers as well as sociologists like Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello point out, today’s globalized, neoliberal capitalism has incorpo- rated the social and artistic critiques of the late 1960s and early 1970s and answered...

..., I will preoccupy myself, below, mainly with food. The Bulimia of Late Capitalism At the outset of the global financial crisis in 2008, for instance, Seattle’s gunmetal-­gray autumn days portended for many a winter of discontent...

...Geeta Patel Duke University Press 2006 Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital On 1 March 2004 a prominent Calcutta newspaper ran the following Geeta Patel advice: “Fixed cost: For birth of a boy: Rs. 3001, for birth of a girl: Rs...

... : Anthem . Braverman Harry . ( 1974 ) 1998 . Labour and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century . New York : New York University Press . Bray Francesca . 1997 . Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China . Berkeley : University of...

...Jodi A. Byrd; Alyosha Goldstein; Jodi Melamed; Chandan Reddy This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social...

...Greg L. Childs This article explores the problem of torture and secrecy in the archives of conspiracies, seditions, and black resistance movements in the colonial Americas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the example of the Tailors' Conspiracy, a seditious movement that...

...Ed Cohen How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian...

... science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through durative and recursive structures. Providing the extractive and appropriative logics underlying racial capitalism, dispossession is both...

... both colonial legacies and transnational capital. Joining conversations about the university's rabid corporatization, the essay uses the arts, and particularly the theater department, as a case study of how the bifurcation of professional training and scholarship, form and content, theory and practice...

... . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Kasfir Sidney . 2007 . African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Kester Grant . 2011 . The One and the Many . Durham...

...Randy Martin The massive capital bailout launched in 2008 proceeded on a threat that without it “there would be no economy.” What if that turned out to be the case? Capital had claimed economy as the name of its social relations: the task here is to explore what social logic is disclosed through...

... offered as a kind of riposte to Marshall McLuhan’s formulation “The medium is the message” at a moment when it has become even more undeniable that the media (linguistic, visual, computational, financial) are the media of racial capitalism. The Message Is Murder is itself part of an investigation of what...

... for pictorial abstraction, and the real abstraction of suburban, productive, destructive, and logistical spaces in late capitalism—which are in turn predicated, especially in the “new West,” on ongoing if often occluded histories of settler colonialism and racialized dispossession. The work of...

... racial capitalism and examines neoliberalism’s role in co-opting and obscuring insurgency against such exploitation. It suggests that black feminist speculative fiction by Octavia Butler constitutes a “philosophy of history” that makes visible otherwise difficult to apprehend historical continuities and...