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Book SynopsisCrisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The Moment of Critique 1 The Distance of Critique 2 Matter against Materialism 3 Apocalypse and Crisis Part 2 Crisis Culture 4 The Aesthetics of Crisis 5 Scale, Commodity, Totality 6 The Crisis of European Philosophy Part 3 Crisis and Communisation 7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles 8 Communisation and the End of Art 9 War and Communisation Part 4 Critical Figures 10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson 11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism 12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism 13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark Fisher Conclusion Bibliography Index
