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    Our Benevolent Feudalism

    Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 144 pp., plus commentary, notes, and index. ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By James Livingston
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    Figures of Catastrophe

    Francis Mulhern, Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel (London and New York: Verso, 2016). In 1843 Thomas Carlyle, archetypal Victorian sage, coined the phrase “condition of ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By John Plotz
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    Fascism Doesn’t Work Like That: A Review of Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works

    It’s hard to speak ill of a book that targets fascism. And in theory it is even harder to be critical of a book that aims to explain ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Peter Ludlow
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    Rethinking Dust: On Carolyn Steedman, Archival Studies, and Critique

    On Carolyn Steedman’s Dust: The Archive and Cultural History I should observe, in opening, that Carolyn Steedman’s Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (2001) possesses the unique capacity ...

    On September 17, 2018 / By Lisa Fluet
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    Marx as Flawed, Manic, and One of Us: a Review of Marx Returns

    Jason Barker, Marx Returns (Winchester, UK and Washington, US: Zero Books, 2018) “Do you not exist? Do you feel like a machine? Does your life count for a ...

    On September 17, 2018 / By Rafael Khachaturian
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    Rewriting Finance’s Fiction

    De Boever, Arne. Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis. New York: Fordham UP, 2018. On April 23rd, 2013, the Associated Press Twitter account ...

    On May 28, 2018 / By Phillip R. Polefrone
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    The Soul of Man Under Neoliberalism: Walter Benn Michaels and the Salvation of Modernist Art

    Romances, maudlin dramas, shallow homilies, which trifle with so-called (though falsely so) noble sentiments, but in fact make the heart enervated, insensitive to the stern precepts of duty, ...

    On May 28, 2018 / By Sean McCann
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    Review of Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (Harvard University Press, 2016)

    By BEN LIBMAN The “First Date” episode of Netflix’s hit series Master of None depicts a uniquely Millennial phenomenon: app-based dating. The episode follows lead character Dev Shah, ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
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    Homo Defeatist?

    By JASON FITZGERALD A Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Harper, 2017) Early in Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
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    Does New York Know?: A Review of Ingrid Burrington’s Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure

    By MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN Review of Ingrid Burrington, Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016. When in 2006 the Republican ...

    On November 25, 2016 / By Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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