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dc.contributor.authorHoffman, Todd
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-07T18:20:02Z
dc.date.available2022-10-07T18:20:02Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10675.2/624433
dc.description.abstractPostmodern 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.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.subjectPostmodern, capitalism, Deleuze, DeLanda, Fisher, realismen_US
dc.titleThe New Realism: Seeking Alternative to Postmodern Pessimismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of English and World Languagesen_US
dc.identifier.journalTheory and Eventen_US
refterms.dateFOA2022-10-07T18:20:02Z


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