The New Realism: Seeking Alternative to Postmodern Pessimism
dc.contributor.author | Hoffman, Todd | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-07T18:20:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-07T18:20:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-04 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10675.2/624433 | |
dc.description.abstract | Postmodern pessimism has been newly expressed by Mark Fisher as capitalist realism: the sense that one can't even imagine an alternative to capitalism. Fisher's use of the term realism points to the subjective content of the contemporary capitalist life-world. In contrast, a new brand of realism as assemblage theory has become prominent through Manuel DeLanda: that is, a complex ontology of interwoven networks of immanent unfolding that operate on multiple scales of size. DeLanda supplies a basic ontology of society that, combined with Fisher's sense of realism, elaborates a new potential for socio-economic change. This paper will examine Fisher and DeLanda's views and add the speculative materialist economic work of Benjamin Lozano as a means of bringing the two together. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Postmodern, capitalism, Deleuze, DeLanda, Fisher, realism | en_US |
dc.title | The New Realism: Seeking Alternative to Postmodern Pessimism | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Department of English and World Languages | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | Theory and Event | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-10-07T18:20:02Z |