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STANFORD BRIEFS 3
Moments of Capital Religion The Paranoid Chronotope
World Theory, World Literature Rereading What Is Bound Together Power, Truth, Identity
Eli Jelly-Schapiro Michel Serres Frida Beckman
Moments of Capital sets out to Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise This book identifies and illuminates
grasp the unity and heterogeneity With this profound final work, paranoia as a significant feature
of global capital in the postcolonial completed in the days leading up to of contemporary U.S. society and
present. Jelly-Schapiro argues that his death, Michel Serres presents a culture. Centering on three key
global capital is composed of three vivid picture of his thinking about dimensions—power, truth, and
synchronous moments: primitive religion. Themes from Serres’s earlier identity—in three different contexts
accumulation, expanded reproduc- writings—energy and information, —society, literature, and critique—
tion, and the “synthetic disposses- the role of the media in modern the book explores the increasing
sion” facilitated by financialization society, the anthropological function influence of paranoid thinking in
and privatization. These moments of sacrifice, the role of scientific U.S. society during the second half
correspond to distinct economic knowledge, the problem of evil— of the twentieth century and first
and political forms, and distinct are reinterpreted here in the light decades of the twenty-first, a period
strands of theory and fiction. of the Old Testament accounts of which has seen the rise of control
Isaac and Jonah and a variety of systems and neoliberal ascendency.
The book’s literary readings make
Gospel episodes. Monotheistic Inquiring about the predominance
vivid the uneven texture and experi-
religion, Serres argues, resembles of white, male, American subjects in
ence of capitalist modernity at large.
mathematical abstraction in its paranoid culture, Beckman recognizes
Analyzing formally and thematically
dazzling power to bring together an antagonistic maintenance and
diverse novels, Jelly-Schapiro evinces
the real and the virtual, the natural fortification of a conception of the
the different patterns of conscious-
and the transcendent; but only in its autonomous individual that perceives
ness that register and hypothesize
Christian embodiment is it capable itself as under threat. Identifying
a way beyond the contradictions of
of binding together human beings in such paranoia as emerging from
capital. This book develops a new
such a way that partisan attachments an increasingly disjunctive relation
conceptual key for the mapping of
are dissolved and a new era of between this conception of the subject
contemporary theory, world litera-
history, free for once of the lethal and the changing nature of the public
ture, and global capital itself.
repetition of collective violence, can sphere, she develops the concept of
“A formidable achievement.” be entered into. the paranoid chronotope as a tool for
—Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, theoretical analysis of social, literary,
Oxford University “A stunning book.” and critical practices today.
—Jean-Pierre Dupuy,
CURRENCIES: NEW THINKING FOR Stanford University
FINANCIAL TIMES “Impressively incisive.”
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American Graphic Writing Our Extinction Reader’s Block
Disgust and Data in Anthropocene Fiction and A History of Reading Differences
Contemporary Literature Vertical Science Matthew Rubery
Rebecca B. Clark Patrick Whitmarsh MATTHEW RUBERY’S EXPLORATION OF
THE INFLUENCE NEURODIVERGENCE HAS
“Graphic” is a term tellingly at Revealing the ways that literature ON THE WAYS INDIVIDUALS READ ASKS
odds with itself. On the one hand, has engaged the history of vertical US TO CONSIDER THAT THERE MAY BE NO
ONE DEFINITION OF READING.
it seems to evoke the grotesque; science and linked it to increasing
on the other hand, it promises environmental precarity, Whitmarsh Drawing on personal testimonies
the geometrically streamlined in examines works by writers such as gathered from literature, film, life
the form of graphs and diagrams. Don DeLillo, Karen Tei Yamashita, writing, social media, medical case
Clark’s innovation is to ask what Reza Negarestani, and Colson studies, and other sources to express
happens when the same moment Whitehead alongside postwar how cognitive differences—from
in a work of literature is graphic scientific programs including dyslexia, hyperlexia, and alexia to
in both ways at once. Her answer the Space Race, atmospheric and synesthesia, hallucinations, and
suggests the graphic turn in con- underground nuclear testing, and dementia—have shaped people’s
temporary literature is intimately geological expeditions such as experiences both on and off the
implicated in the fraught dynamics Project Mohole (which attempted page, Rubery contends that there is
of identification. Clark analyzes the to drill to the earth’s mantle). As no single activity known as reading.
contemporary graphic along three Whitmarsh argues, by focusing Instead, there are multiple ways
specific axes: the ethnographic, the readers’ attention on the fragility of of reading (and, for that matter,
pornographic, and the infographic. postwar life through a vertical lens, not reading) despite the ease with
In each chapter, Clark’s explication Anthropocene fiction highlights the which we use the term. Pushing
of the double graphic reads a interconnections between human us to rethink what it means to
canonical author against literary, behavior and planetary change. read, Reader’s Block moves toward
visual and/or performance works These fictions situate industrial an understanding of reading as a
by Black and/or female creators, history within the much longer spectrum that is capacious enough
demonstrating how closely and narrative of geological time and to accommodate the full range
uncomfortably yoked together reframe scientific progress as a story of activities documented in this
disgust and data have become in our through which humankind writes fascinating and highly original book.
increasingly graph-ick world. itself out of existence.
“Rubery is one of the most sensitive
“Stylishly written.” “A crucial touchstone for current and original scholars working with
—Eugenie Brinkema, debates in ecocriticism.” literature today.”
Massachusetts Institute —Christina Lupton,
—Caren Irr, author of Love and the Novel
of Technology Brandeis University
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18 POST*45 CULTURAL STUDIES
The Persian Prince Outrage The Shadow of the Empress
The Rise and Resurrection of an The Arts and the Creation Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of
Imperial Archetype of Modernity the Habsburg Monarchy
Hamid Dabashi Katherine Giuffre Larry Wolff
With a title borrowed from A cultural revolution in England, A BEGUILING EXPLORATION OF THE LAST
HABSBURG MONARCHS’ GRIP ON EUROPE’S
Machiavelli, Dabashi articulates France, and the United States HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL IMAGINATION.
a bold new idea of the Persian helped usher in modernity. Working
Prince—a metaphor of political alongside the better documented The Shadow of the Empress explores
authority, a figurative ideal deeply political and economic revolutions how the changing circumstances of
rooted in the collective memories of of the time, this cultural revolution cultural production and reception
multiple nations, and a literary con- also ushered in the modern era of before, during, and after World War
struct that connected Muslim em- continuous revolution. Focusing I reshaped the political meanings of
pires across time and space. Drawing on the period between 1847 and the fairy tale opera Die Frau ohne
on works from Classical Antiquity 1937, Outrage examines in depth Schatten. Historian Larry Wolff
and the vast Persianate worlds from six of the cultural “battles” that interweaves the story of the opera’s
India to the Mediterranean, as well were key parts of this revolution: composition and performance
as the Hebrew Bible and European the novels of the Brontë sisters, the history with a personal narrative of
medieval mirrors for princes, Da- paintings of the Impressionists, the his Habsburg and Viennese family.
bashi reveals the construction of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Reflecting on the seismic cultural
Persian Prince as a potent archetype. Ballets Russes’s production of Le shifts that rocked post-imperial
He traces this archetype through its Sacre du printemps, James Joyce’s Europe, Wolff follows the real-life
varied historic gestations and finds it Ulysses, and Zora Neale Hurston’s Emperor and Empress through the
resurfacing in postcolonial political Their Eyes Were Watching God. rise of Nazism, World War II, and
thought as a rebel, a prophet, a poet, Using contemporaneous reviews in the Cold War up until Zita’s death in
and a nomad. the press as well as other historical 1989, when she had herself become a
material, we can see that these now fairy-tale figure.
“Disarmingly accessible.” canonical works provoked outrage
—Laura U. Marks, “A silver rose of a book.”
Simon Fraser University
at the time of their release because —Michael Steinberg,
they addressed critical points of Brown University
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audiences with subversive messages.
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