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Contents
Acknowledgments
The Mirror of Capital: An Introduction to Critical Poiesis
Theoria beyond Praxis: Critical Poiesis
Outline of the Book
Note
References
Part I. Twilight
1. An Insane Book, an Insane Country, an Insane System: Moby-Dick, U.S. Hegemony, and the Catastrophe of Capital
Introduction
Moby-Dick: A Prophetic Anticipation of U.S. Hegemony
M (Investment Capital)
Commodity Capital1: Inputs (C)
Capital in Production Process (P)
The Allocation of Risks
The Politics of Time
Commodity Capital2: Output (C\')
Valorized Money Capital (M\')
The Antinomies of the Period, The Antinomies of Capital
Ahab and the “Principal/Agent” Problem
The Crew and the Limits of Democracy in “Democratic” Capitalism
The Revenge of Moby-Dick, the Revenge of Nature
Conclusion
Notes
References
2. Marxist Aesthetics, Realism, and Photography: On Brecht’s War Primer
Introduction: Iconophobia in Critical Theory?
The Visible and the Invisible in Marxist Methodology and Aesthetics
Brecht’s Critical Aesthetics
The Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung
Photography and Mimesis as Memory
The Visible and the Invisible in the Kriegsfibel
The (In)Visible I: Memory
The (In)Visible II: Montage
The (In)Visible III: War
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital’s Indifference in Dickens’ Hard Times
Introduction: Literature and Social Theory
Constitutive Forms and Shadow Forms
Art and Philosophy: A Hegelian Counterpoint to Dickens
Hard Times and the Gradgrind Philosophy
The Gradgrind Philosophy and Utilitarianism
The Harthouse Philosophy as the Truth of the Gradgrind Philosophy
Dickens, Hard Times, and Capitalism
Conclusion: Taking on Capital’s Shadow Forms
Notes
References
4. The Repressed Returns: Mann’s Doctor Faustus and the Fugue of Capital
Mann’s Life and Doctor Faustus
Variations on Mann’s Recurring Themes
Fugue Structure in Doctor Faustus
The Calling in Doctor Faustus
The Calling: Playing with an Immanent Structural Order
Music as an Immanent Structure
The Calling and Productive Sickness: Dying into Work
The Polyphony of Callings and the Technical Frontier
The Return of the Repressed: The Totalization and Return to Folk Aesthetics
Notes
References
Part II. Dawn
5. “Shakespearian Politics” and World History
Three Themes in a “Shakespearian Politics”
Theme 1: Political Authority Is Not Determined by A “Natural” Hierarchical Order, But by Power Struggles between Competing Elite
Theme 2: Once Acquired, Political Authority Tends to Be Maintained through Normatively Questionable Means
Theme 3: Oppression is the “Normal” Condition of Political Life
The General Content and Practical Orientation of “Shakespearian Politics”
“Shakespearian Politics” Today
A “Shakespearian Politics” beyond Shakespeare?
Notes
References
6. The Radical Implications of Hölderlin’s Aesthetic Rationalism
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Notes
References
7. From Mirror to Catalyst: Whitman and the Literature of Re-Creation
References
8. The City of Brothers
Notes
References
9. Critical Theory, Sociology, and Science-Fiction Films: Love, Radical Transformation, and the Socio-Logic of Capital
Introduction
Theorizing Modern Society: Critical Theory, Sociology, and Science Fiction
Sociology and Science Fiction as Responses to Modernity
Critical Theory and the Logic of Capital
Critical Theory, the Problem of Futurity, and Science Fiction as the Genre of the 21st Century
Love and Radical Transformation in Science-Fiction Films
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Dark City (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Conclusion: Critical Theory of Science Fiction Qua Critique of Social Relations?
Notes
References
Films
10. Magical Marx: Objective Method and Aesthetics
Negations: Sacred and Profane
The Sacred Pure and the Sacred Impure
Magic and Religion
Sacred Sociology
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index