Reading Capitalist Realism

Contributors

c o n t r i b u t o r s Timothy Bewes is professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of The Event of Postcolonial Shame (2011), Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (2002), and Cynicism and Postmodernity (1997). He has also co-edited several collections of essays. He has served on the editorial board of the journal New Formations since 1998, and as an editor of Novel since 2005. Joshua Clover is professor of English at the University of California Davis. He is the author of 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (2009), The Totality for Kids (2006), and The Matrix (2005). He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled The Transformation Problem, concerning the unraveling of hegemony within the current cycle of global accumulation. Michael W. Clune is assistant professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. His books include Writing against Time (2013), White Out (2013), and American Literature and the Free Market (2010). J. D. Connor is assistant professor of art history at Yale University. He works on the interplay of art and industry in the Hollywood system , particularly its contemporary version. He is currently completing The Studios after the Studios: Hollywood in the Neoclassical Era, 1970–2005. He is a member of the steering committee for Post45, a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 1945. Jodi Dean is professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009), Žižek’s Politics (2006), Publicity’s Secret: How Tech- 2 5 6 c o n t r i b u t o r s noculture Capitalizes on Democracy (2002), Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace (1998), and several edited book collections. She is co-editor of Theory and Event. Richard Dienst is the author of The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing against the Common Good (2011) and Still Life in Real Time: Theory after Television (1994). He teaches theory in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Mark Fisher is the author of Capitalist Realism (2009) and the forthcoming Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. He is a commissioning editor at Zero Books. His writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Film Quarterly, The Wire, The Guardian, and Frieze. He is programme leader of the MA in aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a lecturer at the University of East London. His weblog can be found at http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org. Andrew Hoberek is associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post–World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (2005) and has begun work on a book called Mission to Mankind: Post-1960 US Fiction and US Foreign Policy. He is a member of the steering committee for Post45. Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright (2010) and The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s (1998). Alissa G. Karl is assistant professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport, and author of Modernism and the Marketplace : Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen (2009). c o n t r i b u t o r s 2 5 7 Phillip E. Wegner is a University Research Foundation Professor and coordinator of the graduate program in the Department of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties (2009), Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002), and the forthcoming Periodizing Jameson; or, The Adventures of Theory in Post-Contemporary Times and Ontologies of the Possible: Utopia, Science Fiction, and Globalization. He is also president of the Society for Utopian Studies. ...