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Book SynopsisOut of Sync & Out of Work explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labor, in film and literature. This book advances its readers’ grasp of the complexities of historical time in contemporary culture, moving the study of temporality forward in film and media studies, literary studies, critical theory, and cultural critique.
Trade Review"
Out of Sync & Out of Work is original, engrossing, remarkably timely, and consistently characterized by careful scholarship and convincing readings. It is a masterful work that demonstrates the power of contemporary cultural forms to reactivate readers’ sense of history as a political medium." -- Heather Hicks * author of The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative *
“A compelling account of an economic system that has proven itself more and more willing to allow workers to 'fall into history' by rendering their labor obsolete, the book masterfully illuminates the present and its prehistory. More than this, however, it is a persuasive and vivid manifesto for the work culture itself does, one that revivifies our sense that the labor of the cultural critic, at least, is more urgent than ever.” -- Annie J. McClanahan * author of Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture *
"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"Books & Recordings" mention of Out of Sync and Out of Work in Rochester Review
* Rochester Review *
"
Out of Sync Out of Work is original, engrossing, remarkably timely, and consistently characterized by careful scholarship and convincing readings. It is a masterful work that demonstrates the power of contemporary cultural forms to reactivate readers’ sense of history as a political medium." -- Heather Hicks * author of The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative *
“A compelling account of an economic system that has proven itself more and more willing to allow workers to 'fall into history' by rendering their labor obsolete, the book masterfully illuminates the present and its prehistory. More than this, however, it is a persuasive and vivid manifesto for the work culture itself does, one that revivifies our sense that the labor of the cultural critic, at least, is more urgent than ever.” -- Annie J. McClanahan * author of Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture *
"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"Books Recordings" mention of Out of Sync and Out of Work in Rochester Review
* Rochester Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Falling into History
1 Culture by Outmoded Means
2 Reading by Residual Means
3 Narrative by Obstinate Means
4 Cinema by Dated Means
5 Politics by Obsolete Means
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
