There Is an Alternative

With Herbert Marcuse and Mark Fisher Towards a Political Aesthetics of Neoliberalism
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-662-66236-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 149 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 221 g

Reihe: Research

The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the late Mark Fisher's work on "post-capitalist desire" and "acid communism." The main imperative is to formulate a possible (and, as it turns out, necessary) opening for aesthetic critique in the climate of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. This mode of aesthetic critique is then operationalized through an exemplary reading of the emancipatory poetics of Ben Lerner's 2014 novel "10:04."

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schutzbach, Lukas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Neoliberalism and One-Dimensional Society.- One-Dimensional Society and Emancipatory Art.- Emancipatory Art and Neoliberalism in Ben Lerner's 10:04.- Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Lukas Schutzbach is a PhD candidate at the English Department of the University of Heidelberg. His research focusses on the intersection of neoliberalism, contemporary American literature, and questions of critical theory and aesthetics.