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- del Valle Alcalá, Roberto, 1983-
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Class, Embodiment, and Becoming in British Working-Class Fiction : Rereading Barry Hines and Ron Berry with Deleuze and Guattari
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Ingår i: College literature (Print). - 0093-3139 .- 1542-4286. ; 43:2, s. 375-396
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay offers a new reading of two post-war working-class British novels, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave and Ron Berry's So Long, Hector Bebb, in light of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's ideas about the body and subjectivity. What is at stake in these narratives, as in the theoretical edifice constructed by Deleuze and Guattari, is a possibility of being in this case, of social, class-marked being that does not necessarily commence and conclude with fixed positions and functional roles, or with already formed subjectivities and identities. The class figures that we encounter in these novels call for a careful reappraisal of political agency outside of these sanctioned parameters, and for an alternative understanding of marginality in a context of crisis of Fordist social and productive relations.
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Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction : Literature Beyond Fordism
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.
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Martin Amis’s Money and the crisis of Fordism
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Ingår i: Critique. - : Routledge. - 0011-1619 .- 1939-9138. ; 60:1, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes a fresh contextual reading of Amis’s Money as a novel that engages the crisis of Fordism in the 1970s and 1980s. Critical attention has focused largely on its satirical examination of the Thatcherite ethos, but Money is also centrally preoccupied with the collapse of postwar capitalism’s institutional structures of inter-class coordination. As a result of this process, the social phenomenology constructed by the novel is not only defined by growing inequality and economic fetishism, but also by a pervasive sense of political uncontrollability over the accumulation process.
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Monstrous contemplation : Frankenstein, Agamben, and the politics of life
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Ingår i: Textual Practice. - : Routledge. - 0950-236X .- 1470-1308. ; 32:4, s. 611-628
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his recent book L’uso dei corpi, Giorgio Agamben investigates the philosophical genealogy of his central concept of inoperosità through a reconsideration of the classical notion of chresis or ‘use’. According to Agamben, the latter points to an alternative constitution of human nature, one that would not be guided by a principle of necessary actualisation (energeia), would not exhaust itself in the realisation of an end (ergon), but would rather preserve its potentiality in a thoroughly non-subjective (‘contemplative’) relation of the body to itself. For Agamben, it is only through the recognition and mobilisation of this alternative foundation of the human, that the pervasive division of life (between natural and political, ‘bare’ and ‘autarchic’, zoe and bios) upon which modern politics is premised, can be overcome. In this article, I propose to read in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein an instructive rehearsal of these fundamental concepts, focusing on the possible meanings that the notion of monstrosity may acquire when placed against the backdrop of modernity’s commitment to energeia and its associated biopolitical mechanisms.
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On the Margins of History: Deterritorialisation in the Fiction of Niall Griffiths
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- My point of departure in this presentation will be an examination of the concept of deterritorialisation as developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their final collaboration What Is Philosophy? (1994). This concept stands at the centre of these authors’ radically immanent ontology, suggesting a process of ongoing creation in which every form of belonging, in which every contingent crystallisation of being (or “territory”), is alternately disassembled (deterritorialised) and reassembled (reterritorialised). Deleuze and Guattari speak of “relative” deterritorialisation when the process of ontological creation results in concrete and identifiable historical formations, that is, when the act of reterritorialisation takes place within history (or, in 39TH AEDEAN CONFERENCE 112 other words, gives rise to precisely determined historical forms). On the other hand, deterritorialisation can be described as “absolute” when the ontological dynamic opens up history and ushers in a form of pure possibility (“becoming”) that manages to escape from the capture of historical circularity (of repetition, nostalgia and so on). Deleuze and Guattari suggestively refer to the latter as the creation of “a new earth” and “a missing people.” My aim here is to deploy this theoretical analysis in relation to fictional representations of proletarian exclusion and marginal belonging. While I will refer to a range of fictional texts, I will particularly focus on the début novel of Welsh writer Niall Griffiths, Grits. What Griffiths’ novel does, by inscribing its exploration of marginality and exclusion in a carefully constructed tapestry of geological themes and historical allusions (in which the figures of “sedimentation” and “stratification” rule supreme), is to sound the practical limits of any genuinely transformative project of absolute deterritorialisation. The geo-historical force that traverses Grits is a fundamental reminder of the phenomenon of capture (or petrification) that history can impose upon the dynamics of resistance and struggle against the interiority and control of each historical stratum, of each sedimented present. Central to this part of the analysis will be Deleuze and Guattari’s enigmatic claim in What Is Philosophy? that “we lack resistance to the present” (1994, 108). I will then analyse the consequences of an act of social construction on the margins of history that is ultimately pre-empted and abolished by history itself (and its operative figures of collective identification, such as nationalist and even fascist sentiment). Finally, I will propose a tentative reading of the concept of “minority” in the light of the preceding discussion and, especially, in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s elusive notions of “the new earth” and “the missing people.”
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