... field a sense of how these traditions have developed in relation to key historical shifts. It then moves to consider some of the current challenges to the Left work of Latin American cultural studies, especially as articulated in response to neoliberal forms of capital. The essay argues that Latin...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jodi Dean discusses her career as poststructuralist political theorist, activist, and blogger. She has written on Slavoj Zizek, political solidarity, neoliberalism, media politics, media theory, the Occupy movement, and communism. Long concerned with the issue of...

... options are available for artistic and cultural projects that attempt to imagine their way through, and/or intervene in, the neoliberal forces producing these attritions in, and of, labor and life. Drawing from certain developments in postwar avant-garde art and culture (e.g., Debord's notion of drift) as...

... convergence of the values of performance, speed, and eӽciency, in perfect compliance with neoliberal fantasies of the individual who overcomes adversity as well as with biopower’s demand for docile bodies. This essay explores the death of top speed climber Ueli Steck as a site for rethinking the Anthropocene...

... analysis of “environmental” power, a form of intervention that he contrasts to the direct subjugation of individuals, this article suggests that neoliberalism manufactures prolonged states of precarity and choicelessness and does so, oddly, by creating conditions for the steroidal amplification of...

... contemporary lyric subjectivity in which the lyric's “I” emerges from and is shaped by the collective immiseration of neoliberal globalization. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 lyric globalization ethics precarity Works Cited Abrams M. H. Harpham Geoffrey Galt . 2011 . A Glossary of...

... sabotage in the context of global struggles against debt under neoliberalism, this essay argues that Tapia's piece draws our attention to the politics of accounting and accountability in contemporary life while offering an alternative model based on solidarity. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 debt...

... in the humanities, it has also ironically brought many of its arguments closer in form to the positions of the neoliberal and neoconservative orthodoxies it positions itself against. In particular, its tendency to reduce politics to clashes between oppressive state powers and individuals seeking...

... describe the West during the late twentieth century, particularly those that erupt from Salvador Allende’s brief presidency in Chile and the many confrontations between neoliberalism, indigenism, and political activism. Following the movement of visual representation to sculpture, I trace how Vicuña...

... city of risk —a neoliberal experiment at the scale of over three hundred thousand people. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 risk levees neoliberalism Katrina recovery Works Cited Beck Ulrich . 2000 . The Brave New World of Work . Translated by Camiller Patrick . Cambridge...

...: Duke University Press. Mukherjee, Roopali, and Sarah Banet-Weiser. 2012. Commodity Activism: Cul- tural Resistance in Neoliberal Times. New York: New York University Press. Nair, Parvati. 2012. A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado. Dur- ham, NC: Duke University Press...

... cultural theory. In his more recent work, such as A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford UP, 2005), he has updated his diagnoses, showing how the ideology and economics of neoliberalism have given us a world of vastly unequal wealth. Trained as a geographer, Harvey began his career in a...

... scene within which scholars such as Bourri- aud, Nato Thompson, Claire Bishop, and Maria Lind consistently place the participatory is the post-Fordist, neoliberal present, wherein certain forms of collectivity and action are assumed to be foreclosed. The participatory is described by such...

... welfare state while leftist- identified critics in the humanities and social sciences do not. “In his familiar antistatist posture,” Robbins writes, “Foucault encourages serious mistakes about how power works today” (91). Appalled by neoliberal cutting-and-slashing, many...

... devastating hurricanes, Cuba and Mexico were critical of the ways in which the George W. Bush administration handled Katrina. Newspaper coverage of Katrina in these countries pointed to the post- Katrina rescue and recovery efforts as an example of the ineffective policies of a neoliberal state. Indeed...

... of Illinois P, 2009. Day, Gary. Literary Criticism: A New History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. Dean, Jodi. Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies. Durham: Duke UP, 2009. 276 the minnesota review Duffy, Enda. The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism...

.... David Harvey’s many books include The Condition of Postmodernity, Limits to Capital, and, most recently, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. He is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York John Holbo is an Assistant Professor of...

... DATE: March 1, 2005 I have been examining the case of the City University of New York (CUNY), which has finally begun to restratify by putting into place reforms we and our neoliberal allies have advocated for so long. (See the list below of these specific reforms.) As of spring 2005, an 18...

... of literature and on the uses of the “literary” in business circles and in neoliberal commentary. His primary research on peripheral aesthetics can be found in his widespread writing on neo-African popular music of the Americas, and in that vein he is the editor and cotranslator of the...

... the mantra of the age, the need for state regulation to curb the private sector’s worst abuses and the promotion of full employment and economic security through government programs seem outworn ideals from a bygone era. But this neoliberal and neoconservative triumphalism...