... Moretti‘s distant reading, literary studies has itself started to approach cultural studies. But it is no longer the dominant kind of cultural studies; it is something much closer to Hall's initial project. Moretti's literary studies is not mimicking the cultural studies that is subsuming literary studies...

...Bruce Robbins “Deadwood: Academic Freedom and Smart People ” offers a reading of the 2008 film Smart People as an allegory of what the humanities “do” as understood by the general public: the remembering of beloved but now distant or inaccessible things, such as the dead wife for whom...

... into a locality, a certain association with distant places explored and even conquered—and has begun to take on epistemological, affective, and ontological dimensions, linked not only to a radical transformation of the self but also to the transformation of society (via a notion of revolution) and even matter...

...Martín Bergel In contrast to the hegemonic perspective that in Latin America seeks to read José Carlos Mariátegui as a quintessential figure in the fusion of Marxism and the national question, this essay approaches the Peruvian intellectual as an expression of cosmopolitan socialism. As the essay...

... comparisons with different linguistic tables and memorial substantives. From the linguistic background—genetically identical with English and some twenty centuries distant—an old Greek or Latin framework transforms reading into a perpetual exercise in comparative interpretations. The main functions...

... dream-thief. Andrew Cole points out to me that, even as Steyerl pro- poses apophenia in the name of critique, it can also serve the interests of post-cri- tique, as it does in the distant reading advocated by Franco Moretti. References Barthes, Roland. 1971. Change the Object Itself. In Image...

... as students from several other disciplines asked what I was talking about and readily admitted to having no idea what surface reading was. However, the gen- erally subdued English graduate students burst onto the scene with elaborate explanations of sur- face reading, distant reading, postcritical reading...

... the Recollect friars, an austere offshoot of the Franciscan order, and Hen­ nepin himself asserts that he fancied austerity. In spite of this he had a great desire to travel, a desire, as he puts it, to carry the gospel to distant people. Early in his career as a monk he was thrown into contact with fishermen...

... from boring readers, for it is the reader s search­ ing melancholy which works in books, and not the author s skill. Andrei Platonov, Chevengur1 This essay is about reading Russian Soviet literature in the present day. It is common­ place to say that a great part of this literature is (or at least...

... to spread his message, the knight jousted in distant tourneys to win his fair damsel. Which lest you do not incline to my belief is the more noble character, Ulysses or Telemachus? Which the better known to posterity ? Whose memory more loved? Whose accomplishments more revered? Blameless Telemachus...

... studies as an alternative to literary studies but by putting Hall’s thinking on cultural studies alongside the “distant reading” strategies of Franco Moretti. Both Hall and Moretti, Habjan asserts, work against “depoliticized readings” and, as such, Hall’s cultural studies functions as a theoretical...

.... That said, it is the sheer fact of being able to read mystical discourse as Tseng 2002.1.30 18:38 326 Ian Buchanan historically conditioned (from the distant perspective of the twentieth cen- tury and from within...

... has been abandoned. One is given a quest for a sharp and insistent support system, which will make one read the world ideologically, feel the world terribly, and thus make one ready—prone—for any kind of strong move- ment totalitarian forces wish upon the masses. In some ways I hope it sounds...

... inated the social and political picture, these two elements being, first the geographically distant New England abolitionists, second the so­ cially distant Southern poor white. From the first group sprang the author of that sad book, Uncle Tomh Cabin; Mr. Moody very frankly declares himself and his...

.... As to what making hay means, we shall see later; it is not, I am sure, the destructive effort that is predominant in the world today. Our trouble is that danger is too close, too absorbing. We do not rest upon our scythes and see the distant slopes; we are transfixed upon them, fascinated, frozen...

... of radical change for distant others across the Global South. Tracking the interventions of one solar company in the West African Ebola crisis and reflecting on the industry’s response to COVID-19, this paper explores the politics, ethics, and possibility of solarity in the context of these historic...

... of a blank page supposes a neutral writing, free from ghosts, without prior law . . . or, rather, only Universal Law, Universal Identity, the Law of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit . . . and that of the landowner, the latifundista, the dictator, the businessman. It is in writing where we attempt to read...

... partner naive? Indeed, one can see this kind of renewed realism overtaking the theo- retical tools themselves these days—even, for example, the tool kit most dear to people in literature departments, the question of reading. Various brands of surface reading or distant reading hold out some...

... foibles something of a disappointment after reading Byron s more brilliant . . . missives. Nothing of the sort. Hobhouse evinces in his letters his own brand of brilliance once he weans himself from trying to play Byron s inimitable game of witty, irreverent correspondent in the early phases...

... on the Nazis, histories of Germany which can be read by the American undergraduate and gen­ eral reader are scarce; with application, they can read this one profitably. Some of the lack of fluidity arises from the very virtues of the book: for example, a wholesome respect for chronology liberally sprinkles...