Post-postmodernism, or, The logic of just-in-time capitalism
By: Jeffrey T. Nealon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780804781442; 9780804781459
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Culture; Literature; History and criticism; Theory; Post-postmodernism
Other titles: Logic of just-in-time capitalism
Description: "Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent segments of everyday cultural life. If "fragmentation" was the preferred watchword of postmodern America, "intensification" is the dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its analyses--everything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations between economic production and cultural production today--when American-style capitalism, despite its recent battering, seems nowhere near the point of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism is seldom late but always just in time. As such, it requires an updated conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our changed situation." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture and economics. Post-postmodernism : periodizing the 80s : the cultural logic of economic privatization in the US; title: Intensity : empire of the intensities : a random walk down Las Vegas Boulevard; title: Commodity : the song remains the same : on the post-postmodern economics of classic rock; title: University : the associate vice provost in the gray flannel suit : administrative labor and the corporate university; title: Theory going forward. Interruptive excursis : re-reading : on the "hermeneutics of situation" in Nietzsche and Adorno; title: Deconstruction : post-deconstructive? : Negri, Derrida and the present state of theory; title: Interpretation : the swerve around P : theory after interpretation; title: Literature : can literature be equipment for post-postmodern living?; title: Coda : liberal arts : not your father's liberal arts : humanities theory in the post-post future.