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H IG HL I G H TS IN L ITE R ATUR E & CULTURAL STUDI ES
Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color Finance Fictions
in America’s Public Schools Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis
Arshad Imtiaz Ali and Tracy Lachica Buenavista, Editors ARNE DE BOEVER
Education at War seeks to shape educational research and “Finance Fictions is a remarkable achievement. Arne De
practice to more explicitly consider the relationship between Boever blends detailed attention to high finance with close
education, capitalism, and war, and its impact on students of readings of an unexpected array . . . from American Psycho to
color. The contemporary specter of war has become a central Quentin Meillassoux’s writings on science fiction. The book
way that racism and materialism become manifested and offers an original and necessary perspective on the fate of the
practiced within public education systems, and it is students realist novel in an age of collateralized debt obligations, and
of color who are most adversely affected by this nexus. Edu- raises provocative questions about what De Boever calls the
cation at War addresses the absence of youth-centered dis- ‘financialization of the novel itself.’”—David Golumbia, author
cussions regarding education within the political context of of The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
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JEAN-LUC NANCY
March 2018 Translated by Robert Bononno
Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté
The Last Professors “Expectation stages a courtship between philosophy and
The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace,
FRANK DONOGHUE and finesse. Nancy’s book offers both an epithalamium and
Tenth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction
a pregnant poetics, a poetics of awakening and emergence—
“People sometimes believe that they were born too late or too poetics as obstetrics ushering in new ‘senses’ in and of the
early. After reading Donoghue’s book, I feel that I have timed world, plus strong and luminescent poems never seen in
it just right, for it seems that I have had a career that would English before.”—from Jean-Michel Rabaté’s Introduction
not have been available to me had I entered the world 50 years Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy’s writings
later. Just lucky, I guess.”—Stanley Fish, New York Times on literature, written across three decades but, for the most
This new edition includes a substantial Introduction that part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial
elaborates on recent developments and offers tough but than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate
productive analysis that will be crucial for today’s academics literature’s relation to philosophy.
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Out of the Ordinary
Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer MICHAEL DILLON/LOBZANG JIVAKA
LANA LIN Edited by Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge
Foreword by Susan Stryker
What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness?
Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects illuminates the vulner- “The importance of this work to the history of sexuality—
abilities of the human body and how human beings suffer and especially to the history of transsexuality—cannot be
harm. In particular, it examines how cancer disrupts feelings overstated.”—Jose Ignacio Cabezon, University of Califor-
of bodily integrity and agency. nia, Santa Barbara
Freud’s Jaw asks what are the psychic effects of surviving in “In his gripping autobiography, Dillon finds new answers to
proximity to one’s mortality, and it suggests that violences enduring questions about gender. At the same time, he never
stemming from social, cultural, and biological environments manages to solve the puzzle of his own identity and dies in the
condition the burden of such injury. Lin proposes that the pursuit of transcendence. His memoir deserves a place along-
prospect of imminent destruction paradoxically incites cre- side the great spiritual narratives, from Augustine to Merton.”—
ativity. The afflicted are obliged to devise means to reinstate, at Pagan Kennedy, author of The First Man-Made Man
least temporarily, their destabilized physical and psychic unity “Dillon’s memoir . . . show(s) continuity of concerns with
through creative, reparative projects of love and writing. those of transgender individuals today.”—Publishers Weekly
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The Hawthorn Archive Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
Letters from the Utopian Margins Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Editor
AVERY F. GORDON Afterword by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, “Flashpoints for Asian American Studies offers an ambitious,
has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro- bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies
American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale re-
imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. Housed by the consideration of how Asian American studies operates inside
Archive are autonomous radicals, runaways, abolitionists, and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines
commoners, and dreamers who no longer live as obedient its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an
or merely resistant subjects. In this innovative, genre- and academic and political project. This volume presents a highly
format-bending publication, Avery F. Gordon, the “keeper” original reassessment from the inside of Asian American
of the Archive, presents a selection of its documents—origi- studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustain-
nal and compelling essays, letters, cultural analyses, images, ment.”—Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder
photographs, conversations, friendship exchanges, and col- 328 PAGES
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theory, and image converge.
472 PAGES, 7 3/8 X 9 ¾, 85 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS Latinx Literature Unbound
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SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE RALPH E. RODRIGUEZ
“Ralph Rodriguez has done the unimaginable: analyzed and
The House of Early Sorrows accommodated the multiplicities, dynamism, growth, com-
A Memoir in Essays plex sensibilities and allegiances known as Latinx literature
LOUISE DESALVO in one majestic volume. Eschewing the fictions of mono-
The House of Early Sorrows is a stunning collection of Lou- lithic identities, he argues for expanding the “interpretive
ise DeSalvo’s significant and award-winning essays, many horizon” of genre and the spectrum of interlocking cultural
of which have been revised to contain new material. She productions. A groundbreaking book, Latinx Literature Un-
reframes and revises these memoiristic pieces that were bound is essential reading for scholars, writers, and readers
the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as alike.”—Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban and
a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and Here in Berlin
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April 2018 Neighborhood Success Stories
Creating and Sustaining Affordable
Google Me Housing in New York
One-Click Democracy CAROL LAMBERG
BARBARA CASSIN This book illustrates examples of successful community de-
Translated by Michael Syrotinski velopment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the
“A readable and entertaining, yet serious indictment of infor- Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of
mational culture. Cassin’s reflections give us a critical space which is still available today. The buildings were developed
to consider the cost of our acquiescence to the quantification between 1975 and 1997.
of culture that lies at the heart of today’s information-driven Part one of the book is the “West Bronx Story,” which tells
capitalism.”—Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University about the eighteen buildings that comprise New Settlement
In this witty and polemical critique, the philosopher Bar- Apartments in the Bronx. The “Story” illustrates the dra-
bara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. matic transformation of a devastated neighborhood into a
While impressed by the search engine’s brilliance, Cassin en- thriving community.
lists her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition to Part two of the book, “A Tale of Two Bridges,” illustrates a
challenge the Google myth of a “good” tech company and its different path to success. The redevelopment of this area
“democracy of clicks,” laying bare the philosophical poverty in the Lower East Side of Manhattan involved six different
and political naïveté that underwrites its founding slogans: Federal housing programs, and all the buildings remain in
“Organize the world’s information” and “Don’t be evil.” great shape today, forty years later.
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PHILOSOPHY & THEORY
Derrida after the End of Writing The Forgiveness to Come
Political Theology and New Materialism The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical
CLAYTON CROCKETT PETER BANKI
“This book is not for you—if you think the specter of Der- “An extremely well-written, subtle, and moving meditation on
rida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially up- the impasses of forgiveness in the face of the Holocaust and
dated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. other unforgivable crimes, challenging our notions of what it
With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, means to be a person and whether there is a universal order
this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political of human beings that might allow perpetrator and victim to
theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become recognize in each other a shared humanity. . . . Will be of great
postmortem.”—Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor interest to students and scholars of literature, political science,
of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of philosophy, history, and anthropology.”—Rochelle Tobias,
Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility Johns Hopkins University
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reading Derrida’s later work from a new materialist perspec- Just Ideas; Modern Language Initiative
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and critically engaging newer philosophies of speculative
realism and object-oriented ontology, Crockett claims that The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism
Derrida was never a linguistic idealist Erin Graff Zivin, Edito
200 PAGES Foreword by Peggy Kamuf
9780823277841, PAPERBACK, $28.00, £22.99 Afterword by Geoffrey Bennington
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE “The Marrano Specter dazzles in all of its parts and as a
whole. . . . An exemplary meditation on the nature of identity
and the limits of disciplinary thinking.”—Andrew Parker,
Goods: Advertising, Urban Space,
Rutgers University
and the Moral Law of the Image
EMANUELE COCCIA “This work by top-notch scholars will contribute to larger
Translated by Marissa Gemma debates about disciplinarity and the university today. While
“This short, unsettling book offers new perspectives on the the authors locate the traditions they engage in a specifically
moral place of things in the cosmology of industrial mo- ‘hispanist’ history, they indicate how the philosophical inter-
dernity. In making his radical argument, Coccia questions ventions are universal and universalizable.”—Rachel Price,
many of our habits of thought, by showing that the love of Princeton University
things—crystallized in fashion, advertising and consump- Contributors: Patrick Dove, Erin Graff Zivin, Jaime Hanneken,
tion—reflects a search for a form of political normativity David Kelman, Brett Levinson, Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras,
Gareth Williams
which has for too long been seen as illicit, illusory and im-
moral.”—Arjun Appadurai, New York University 184 PAGES
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SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism
July 2018 FRÉDÉRIC NEYRAT
Translated by Walt Hunter and Lindsay Turner
Eco-Deconstruction Foreword by Steven Shaviro
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy “Everything is in flux, as we are told over and over again. And
Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, yet, these are fluxes in which nothing ever really changes. . . .
and David Wood, Editors
Other thinkers have characterized globalized and financial-
“Essential reading for anyone interested in environmental ized capitalism in this way; Neyrat sees it as a dilemma for
philosophy.”—Jeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University critical thought as well. . . . In a world where anything can
“An invaluable reference point for all those interested in be anyplace, and anything can switch places with anything
the intersection of ‘continental’ philosophy, literary criti- else, philosophy must insist on its power to be, not every-
cism, posthumanism, and environmental concerns.”—Mick place, but noplace. It must never fit in, but always disturb its
Smith, Queens University context . . . maintaining a relation with the very Outside that
our dominant social, economic, and intellectual conditions
Contributors: Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Mat-
thias Fritsch, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael seek to deny or suppress . . . Above all, Atopias is a work of
Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael ethics, exhorting us to recognize and find room for the many
Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe, David Wood forms of existence with whom we share our planet.”—Steven
334 PAGES, 2 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS Shaviro, from the Foreword
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March 2018 SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE

PHILOSOPHY & THEORY
Portrait Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience
JEAN-LUC NANCY PETER SZENDY
Translated by Sarah Clift and Simon Sparks Translated by Jan Plug
Introduction by Jeffrey S. Librett
“From ontology to linguistics, from learned treatise to comic
Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of sub- book, the grace of this fascinating text brings being back to
jectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying the infinity of its cut.”—Catherine Malabou
a sitter’s self-sameness, is suspended between proximity “Peter Szendy’s brilliant reflections on the punctuation of ex-
and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and perience make for a magnificent composition: a new philoso-
presentation, the faithful and the forceful. A portrait can phy of the sensible focused on how one feels oneself feeling . . . .
identify an individual, but it can also express a more complex Never before have exclamation points, dashes, interrogatives,
double movement of approach and withdrawal. full stops, and quotation marks been treated so existentially;
Nancy’s readings range from carvings on ancient drinking ves- never before has the musicality of existence been so keenly
sels to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which sitters tied to its notation; never before has the distance between
are rendered in the ‘media’ of their own blood, germ culture, points been used so effectively as a measure of life-span. In
or DNA. The forms of appearing that mark portraits can serve the “pows!” and “blams” of comic-book blows, glimmers of
to renew our exploration of the human figure today. At stake is political violence come into focus. This is an amazing work of
what Nancy calls “the very possibility of our being present.” philosophy, aesthetics, media, and critique!!!”—Emily Apter
Lit Z Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
May 2018 January 2018
Power of Gentleness Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Meditations on the Risk of Living Derrida’s Seminars and the New Abolitionism
ANNE DUFOURMANTELLE Kelly Oliver and Stephanie M. Straub, Editors
Translated by Katherine Payne and Vincent Sallé
Foreword by Catherine Malabou “Deconstructing the Death Penalty. . . offers an indispensable
reckoning with deconstruction’s legacy and relevance to
“Power of Gentleness is an important text that teaches us, current debates around the question of sovereignty and the
comforts us, disturbs us too.”—Catherine Malabou state’s monopoly on violence.”—David Lloyd, University of
The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active pas- California, Riverside
sivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance Contributors: Nicole Anderson, Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther,
within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder,
renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst whose untimely Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Kas Saghafi,
death captured worldwide attention, gentleness becomes a Adam Thurschwell, Sarah Tyson
series of embodied paradoxes: power that is also soft, nobility 296 PAGES
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Against a risk-averse society that crushes human beings “gen- July 2018
tly,” Dufourmantelle celebrates the uncompromising gentle-
ness discovered by Gandhi and other revolutionaries. Within
the despair confided by her patients, she traces the force of Political Concepts
resistance and intangible magic that gentleness offers to or- A Critical Lexicon
Edited by J.M Bernstein, Adi Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler
dinary women and men who fully embrace the risk of living.
152 PAGES Political Concepts seeks to revive our common political
9780823279609, PAPERBACK, $20.00, £16.99 vocabulary—both everyday and academic—and to do so
SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each
March 2018 contributor presents her or his own original reflection on a
concept posed in the traditional Socratic question format
The Self-Emptying Subject “What is X?” and asks what sort of work a rethinking of that
Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern concept can do for us now.
ALEX DUBILET
Contributors: Gil Anidjar, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein,
“In this important book, Dubilet recharges immanence. . . . Akeel Bilgrami, Jean Cohen, Joan Copjec, Stathis Gourgouris,
These ground-breaking interpretations of Eckhart, Hegel, Andreas Kalyvas, Jacques Lezra, Adi Ophir, Gayatri Spivak,
and Bataille constitute a significant intervention into con- Ann Laura Stoler
temporary continental philosophy of religion and theol- 288 PAGES
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ogy.”—Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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April 2018

RACE & ETHNIC STUDIES
Religion of the Field Negro NEW I N PAPE RBACK!
On Black Secularism and Black Theology Salvage Work
VINCENT W. LLOYD U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of
Legal Personhood
“Once again Vincent Lloyd has written an insightful, de-
ANGELA NAIMOU
manding, even daring book, and this time with an irritating
title straight out of the 1960s. Lloyd throws down a stinging Winner, 2016 Association for the Study
of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
challenge to all those of us who cling to idolatries of race,
class, and gender as well as to our privileges in the classroom, Honorable Mention,
William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA
the boardroom, and the pulpit. We have betrayed black the-
ology in our failure to uphold the wisdom of the marginal- “Angela Naimou’s superbly written Salvage Work is one of
ized, the cherished people of God.”—M. Shawn Copeland, the smartest responses to Giorgio Agamben’s ‘death-bound
Boston College theories of legal personhood.’ Rather than take the refugee
304 PAGES as the singular figure for theorizing the limits of sovereignty
9780823277643, PAPERBACK, $30.00, £24.99 and the subject of law, Naimou studies the disruptions to
a liberal rights paradigm through her focus on equally
troubling cases of exceptional personhood in the figures of,
Racial Worldmaking among others, the slave, the disappeared, the corporation,
The Power of Popular Fiction the sailor, the fugitive, and the fetus. The legal and political
MARK C. JERNG insights are all the more powerful because they emerge from
“Racial Worldmaking meets the irresistible demand for meticulous close readings.”—Joseph R. Slaughter, Columbia
scholarship that recognizes the central role of perceiving and University
speculating about race in American literature and culture. 304 PAGES
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American Literatures Initiative
trines, literary traditions, and economic philosophies, Jerng SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE
interrogates the fictions that buttress dominant racial ideolo-
gies and calls attention to the imaginative work performed
by thinkers who take racism seriously. Racial Worldmaking
moves beyond disciplinary conventions to apply lessons
learned from critical race theories and advance vital lines
of inquiry inaugurated by Black and Asian American intel-
lectuals.”—andré carrington, author of Speculative Blackness:
The Future of Race in Science Fiction
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C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S RELIGION
The Postcolonial Contemporary Sexual Disorientations
Political Imaginaries for the Global Present Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder, Editors Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal,
and Stephen D. Moore, Editors
This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in or-
Afterword by Elizabeth Freeman
der to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolo-
nial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to “This volume compellingly queers what we thought we knew
inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately about sexuality and temporality in Christian texts, interpre-
grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the tations, and theologies. Beginning with the question of his-
volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think toriography in the study of ancient texts, it moves through
with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. into the queer time of ethics and theology. Bodies, texts,
and time race forward, touch, pause, and tarry; they fall into
In twelve essays spanning history, anthropology, literature, catastrophe, witness, cry out, and are haunted by pain and
geography, and indigenous studies, The Postcolonial Contem- hope; yet still they rehome readers, or afford queer pleasure.
porary seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that Sexual Disorientations enlivens our reading of these religious
have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. par- texts by compellingly queering their temporalities and af-
ticular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. fects.”—Erin Runions, Pomona College
Contributors: Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad 368 PAGES, 1 B/W ILLUSTRATION
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Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
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Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
July 2018 Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman, Editors
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-
The Global South Atlantic secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the
Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter, Editors
works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the intercon-
“A critically important contribution to current debates and nection of psychoanalysis, religion, political theory, and
discussions toward remapping the cultural and political modernity has emerged, with Freud’s final book, Moses and
geographies of global literary and media production.” Montheism, taking a central role. Highlighting the broad
—Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, the
Not only were more African slaves transported to South contributors hail from such diverse disciplines as philoso-
America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and phy, comparative literature, cultural studies, German stud-
shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, ies, Jewish studies and psychoanalysis.
and the Caribbean for over five centuries. The Global South Contributors: Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel,
Atlantic shows the range of ways people, governments, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Sega-
political movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, lovitz, Gilad Sharvit, Joel Whitebook
goods, and markets cross the South Atlantic, or sometimes 208 PAGES
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Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
Contributors: Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE
Kerry Bystrom, Christina E. Civantos, Jason Frydman, Jaime June 2018
Hanneken, Waïl S. Hassan, Oscar Hemer, Isabel Hofmeyr, Maja
Horn, Luís Madureira, Anne Garland Mahler, Lanie Millar, Joseph
R. Slaughter
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Experiments in Exile Secular Lyric
C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and
the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness Dickinson
LAURA HARRIS JOHN MICHAEL
“The first response of many readers may be to wonder what “In this thoughtful and original study John Michael explores
on earth links C.L.R. James and Hélio Oiticica This book’s the ways in which Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapted and
critical themes of the motley crew, of theorizing issues of re-shaped the lyric in response to the challenges of secular
contact, of aesthetic sociality all answer the question well. modernity. Secular Lyric will be of interest not only to those
What is crucial is that two such disparate characters, both wishing to learn more about these three poets but to those
contending with issues of exile, illegality and citizenship, each curious about the fate of the lyric in a world increasingly
developed similar strategies for understanding culture and defined by secularism and by all the paradoxes such a devel-
for projecting a future (even futuristic in Oiticica’s case) po- opment can bring.”—Kerry Larson, University of Michigan
tential.”—Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University 256 PAGES
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Commonalities April 2018
American Literatures Initiative
August 2018 Antebellum Posthuman
Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Monkey Trouble CRISTIN ELLIS
The Scandal of Posthumanism From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not
CHRISTOPHER PETERSON a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration
“Posthumanists, new materialists, neovitalists, cosmopoliti- “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the
cians, accelerationists, xenofeminists, post-poststructural- recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even
ists, and speculative realists will have much to argue with as the very definition of the human has been called into
here. But this is an argument they—we—would be well question by the biological sciences. Antebellum Posthuman
advised to have at this historical moment—a decade or argues that this conflict between liberal humanism and
two into the broader ‘nonhuman turn’—given the often biological materialism first emerged as a key question in the
baroque claims, naïve enthusiasms, and extravagant con- antebellum era. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau,
tradictions performed in its name. In Peterson’s meticulous Whitman, and Dickinson, and turning to contemporary
and elliptical critique we encounter a forceful Counter- debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical
Reformation against the more heretical proclamations of race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum post-
posthumanism; along with a nuanced insistence that—when humanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist
all is said and done—we are human, all too human, after all.” ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.
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The Mark of Theory
Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories
Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of
ANDREA BACHNER
Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie D. Holm, Editors “By the sheer force of its sophistication and range, this book
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspec- demands that we engage anew with poststructuralist theory’s
tives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in lit- evolving potentialities—in particular, with its intimate ties
erature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic to the politics and ethics of wounding.”
birds, and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies —Rey Chow, Duke University
that extend across as well as beyond languages and species. What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we
The essays examine the historical, poetic, and semiotic prob- theorize? The Mark of Theory argues that inscription consti-
lem of mimesis exemplified both by the imitative behavior of tutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory.
parrots, starlings, and other mocking birds, and by the poetic In focusing on materiality and mediation The Mark of Theory
trope of such birds in a range of literary traditions. shows how inscriptive practices shape conceptual thought, as
Drawing from a cross-section of traditional periods and fields well as political and ethical choices. By contextualizing the
in literary studies, the collection offers new models for combin- fraught relationship between materiality and signification,
ing comparative and global studies of literature and culture. The Mark of Theory lays the ground for a politics of theory that
begins there where theory and politics are no longer conflated.
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Reified Life Indecorous Thinking
Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics
J. PAUL NARKUNAS COLLEEN RUTH ROSENFELD
The 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neolib- “A rich and sustaining book, one anyone working in the field
eral and financial capital to organize human societies much of English Renaissance literature will want to own and have
to the detriment of the world’s populations. Reified Life ready to hand.”—Gordon Teskey, Harvard University
theorizes the dangerous social implications of a posthuman “It is rare to encounter a book as learned, engaging, thorough,
future, whereby human agency is secondary to algorithmic and innovative as Colleen Rosenfeld’s Indecorous Thinking.
processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instru- Rosenfeld deftly challenges a long-held truism of literary
ments, and nonhuman market and technological forces. As history: that sprezzatura, or the concealment of labor, was
such, Reified Life addresses the most pressing political ques- a goal uniformly shared by celebrated English poets. To the
tion of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what contrary, Rosenfeld shows, early modern writers frequently
forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or practiced ‘open art,’ or art that makes conspicuous—even
expendable, human and otherwise? audacious—use of figures of speech. Refusing to confine
304 PAGES itself to what uncontestably is, this poetry works instead in
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the subjunctive mood to imagine a world constructed other-
wise.”—Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
July 2018
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Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form
ANNA KORNBLUH
Last Things
“If you want to understand what goes on today, how a mad- Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar
ness like the 2008 meltdown was possible, read Realizing JACQUES KHALIP
Capital!”—Slavoj Žižek “This is a book whose intelligence and insight the academy
“Essential reading for anyone wishing to follow cutting edge desperately needs. It displays a conceptual beauty in bringing
work on the form of the Victorian novel.”—Adela Pinch, SEL the contemporary ‘crisis’ in Romantic studies into contact
“This highly original and far-reaching book puts Marx and with the question of ‘lastness’—a question that is, in many
Freud into an exciting new dialogue with the Victorian ways, always already the crisis of Romanticism. Approach-
novel. Kornbluh reads these imposing thinkers as engaged ing the ‘last’ as what always comes after itself, Khalip thinks
in the same project as the realist novelists, all of them strug- lastness as the persistence, in a minor, non-apocalyptic key,
gling to defamiliarize the frighteningly fictitious character of of what decompletes, derealizes, or dephenomenalizes the
capital. [The] book culminates in a tour de force reading of ‘world.’ Pursuing that thought through bravura readings,
Marx’s Capital as a Bildungsroman and a radical rethinking Khalip affords his readers the thrill of intellectual discovery
of Freud’s ‘psychic economy.’”—Caroline Levine, Cornell while challenging them to ask if such discoveries themselves
University are the effect of our determination by lastness.”—Lee Edel-
232 PAGES man, Tufts University
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POETRY & POETICS MEDIA STUDIES
Rotary Devotion The Technological Introject
GARY KEENAN Friedrich Kittler between Implementation
Foreword by Alice Fulton and the Incalculable
“Indebted to the great American tradition of Stevens and Jeffrey Champlin and Antje Pfannkuchen, Editors
Afterword by Avital Ronell
Ashbery, Gary Keenan’s profound and necessary poems are
meditations on ‘the solace of uncertainty’ and ‘the work of “Spearheaded by New York philosophy icon Avital Ronell,
being born.’ Out of ‘the slow storm’ of existence as ‘tulips dry this book pays tribute to Germany’s most controversial yet
into paper flames,’ they “start in pain and end in revelation.’ most original media theorist, who completely changed the
Read them.”—L. S. Asekoff German academic landscape by following his declared goal
64 PAGES, 5 X 8 to drive the human out of the humanities. In completely
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Poets Out Loud volume introduce Friedrich Kittler’s radical and challenging
approach to the study of Western culture, literature, and
The New York Editions philosophy to an American audience.”—Arne Hocker, Uni-
MICHAEL D. SNEDIKER versity of Colorado, Boulder
“The seasons of Henry James—the stirring hesitations and Contributors: Rudiger Campe, Jeffrey Champlin, Bernhard J.
queer speculation and spoiled opportunities and inner dis- Dotzler, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Hans-Christian von Herrmann,
quisitions—are the scintillating scrim through which each Ute Holl, Alexander Lambrow, Antje Pfannkuchen, Mert Bahadir
Reisoğlu, Nimrod Reitman, Laurence A. Rickels, Avital Ronell,
of these poems is shot, venting the novelist’s fabric and re-
Bernhard Siegert, Chadwick T. Smith, Elisabeth Weber, Samuel
taining something of his sensorium on their way elsewhere. Weber, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Dominik Zechner
These highly original, deliciously unpredictable, exquisitely
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Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism
in the Nineteenth Century
Poetry and Mind SUSAN ZIEGER
Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus
LAURENT DUBREUIL How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media
economy? Why are we now fixated on screens, imbibing
“Poetry and Mind is an excellent book that performs its own information that constantly expires, and longing for more
thesis as a ‘thinking experiment’ that is part classical argu- direct or authentic kinds of experience? This book answers
ment and part poetic suggestion. In the breathtaking range these questions by revisiting a previous media revolution,
of literary and philological knowledge on display, we have a the nineteenth-century explosion of mass print. Like our
form of verification built on Wittgensteinian perspicuity— own smartphone screens, printed paper and imprinted
on the very brilliance of its own learning. Many scholars objects touched the most intimate regions of nineteenth-
and artists have attempted the Tractatarian form before, century life. This book illuminates their affects – their em-
but seldom with Dubreuil’s success.”—John Ó Maoilearca, bodied, emotional, mental, and intersubjective dimensions.
Kingston University How did consumers incorporate mass culture, remaking it
An elliptic response to Wittgenstein’s point of arrival in and themselves, in material and psychological practices?
the Tractatus, Poetry and Mind is first and foremost an in- Building on literary studies, media history, social history,
terdisciplinary study of poetry, drawing on literary theory, and affect studies, it shows how we got our own ideas about
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POLITICAL THEORY
Liturgical Power Other Others
Between Economic and Political Theology The Political after the Talmud
NICHOLAS HERON SERGEY DOLGOPOLSKI
“Liturgical Power makes a significant contribution to litur- “Dolgopolski’s Other Others is the most ambitious work I
gical studies through its ability to illuminate Agamben’s have read in the field of Jewish political and philosophical
significant work on the subject in his more recent writings. though in some time. It is creative, synthetic, well writ-
The book demonstrates first-rate scholarship in that it takes ten and conceptually clear. Dolgopolski is a master of his
up a significant philological discussion that is pursued across material and an innovator. The combination makes for a
centuries and various sources.”—Colby Dickinson, Loyola scintillating piece of scholarship.”—Sarah Hammerschlag,
University Chicago University of Chicago
“Heron’s book offers a magisterial reconstruction of the Excluding certain others from a society, while still tolerating
Christian idea of government. Liturgical Power makes a diversity, stabilizes a political order. Or does it? Revisiting
crucially important intervention into the emerging field of this classical question of political theory, this book turns
political theology.”—Miguel Vatter, University of New South to the Talmud. That late ancient body of text and thought
Wales displays a new concept of the political, and thus a new take
216 PAGES on the question of excluded others.
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Modern Language Initiative
June 2018
On the Nature of Marx’s Things

Translation as Necrophilology Stasis Before the State
JACQUES LEZR Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
Foreword by Vittorio Morfino DIMITRIS VARDOULAKIS
“The project of returning ‘Marxist logic’ to a materialist and “A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses
pragmatic approach has been underway for some years now. Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of
Jacques Lezra, plunging into this logic’s deepest reaches, contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear con-
discovers there a ‘language of things,’ exactly as in Lucretius; flict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic
but also a language of singularities, as in Spinoza; and of dif- life.”—James Martel, San Francisco State University
ferences, marshaled against the possibility of any system of “Against the naïve utopias of radical democracy and of lib-
general equivalences. What he calls ‘necrophilology’ inter- eral democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with ‘agonistic
venes wherever such systems would reinstall the fetishes of democracy’—a non-teleological and paradoxical political
humanism to the heights from which they’ve been cast—as a practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as
rupture, a break. Is Lezra proposing an ontology? The word the only real alternative to sovereign power. Stasis before the
is heavy, but recalling Lucretius and Spinoza in this way State is a truly remarkable and memorable book.”—Cesare
certainly lightens its weight, and makes ontology powerfully Casarino, University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior
viable for, and by means of, the critique of contemporary Editor
capitalism.“—Antonio Negri 168 PAGES, 5 X 7 1/2
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