In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 5-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0005
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Austerity and the Poison of Neoliberal Miseducation

Henry A. Giroux
pp. 9-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0009
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Against Austerity: Toward a New Sensuality

Christopher Breu
pp. 23-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0023
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The Austerity School: Grit, Character, and the Privatization of Public Education

Kenneth J. Saltman
pp. 41-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0041
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A Dog’s Life: Austerity and Conduct in Neoliberal Academe

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 59-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0059
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Sunken Treasure: The Cultural Logic of Austerity

Robert Appelbaum
pp. 77-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0077
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The Debt Economy and the Politics of Profanation

Marcia Klotz
pp. 97-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0097
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Austere Subjectivity and Tea Parties: Between Individual Freedom and the Individualization of Risk

J. Paul Narkunas
pp. 111-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0111
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Austerity and the Speculative Logic of Derivatives

Michelle Ty
pp. 133-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0133
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Ordinary Happiness: Marilynne Robinson’s Tragic Economies of Debt and Forgiveness

Aaron Mauro
pp. 149-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0149
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Of a Survivalist Tone Adopted in Literary Studies

Vincent Bruyere
pp. 167-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0167
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Topographies of a Cinematic City: Vladimir Nabokov’s “A Guide to Berlin”

Sigi Jöttkandt
pp. 181-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0181
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Guerrilla Bathes at Noon: Revolutionary Poetics or the Poetics of Anachronism

Louis Armand
pp. 201-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0201
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“The Reign of Man is Over”: The Vampire, the Animal and the Human in Maupassant’s “Le Horla”

Nathan Snaza
pp. 215-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0215
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The Acousmatic Voice as the Chiasmatic Flesh: An Analysis of Howard Barker’s Gertrude-the Cry

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
pp. 235-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0235
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The Potentiality of Study: Giorgio Agamben on the Politics of Educational Exceptionality

Tyson E. Lewis
pp. 275-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0275
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The Revisionary Muse in Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill: On Literary Politics, Modernist-Style

Daniel T. O’Hara
pp. 293-302
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2014.a566845
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Modernist Studies after Modernism

Christian Moraru
pp. 303-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0303
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WIMPing Out: Looking More Deeply at Digital Game Interfaces

Andrew Baerg
pp. 307-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0307
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The Performance of Non-Philosophy

Cameron MacKenzie
pp. 311-314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0311
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To Read or Not Read Mental States: The Artful Play of our Mental Activities

Frederick Luis Aldama
pp. 315-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0315
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Said’s Secret Sharer

Harold Aram Veeser
pp. 319-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0319
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The Future of the Literary Critic: On David Bromwich’s Moral Imagination

Daniel T. O’Hara
pp. 325-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0325
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The Persistence of Temporality

Keith Leslie Johnson
pp. 334-336
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0333
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The Political Education of Walter Benn Michaels: An Interview

Jeffrey J. Williams
pp. 337-359
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0337
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The Contemporist: An Interview with Terry Smith

Jeffrey J. Williams
pp. 361-385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0361
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Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art by Jessica Burstein (review)

Bonnie Kime Scott
pp. 387-388
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The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal by Joshua Ramey (review)

Ronald Bogue
pp. 388-390
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Painting Borges: Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature by Jorge J. E. Gracia (review)

Alan Singer
pp. 390-392
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Joining the Resistance by Carol Gilligan (review)

Claudia Card
pp. 392-394
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Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future by Henry A. Giroux (review)

Christopher Breu
pp. 394-396
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Bergson, Politics, and Religion ed. by Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White (review)

Mark Antliff
pp. 396-398
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne (review)

Julia Panko
pp. 398-400
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Normative Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce ed. by Cornelis de Waal and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (review)

Justin Bell
pp. 400-402
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Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton (review)

Philip Goldstein
pp. 402-404
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Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture by Rey Chow (review)

Nicole Simek
pp. 405-407
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Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse by William D. Melaney (review)

Matthew Mullins
pp. 407-409
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Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature by Victoria Emma Pagán (review)

Paul Allen Miller
pp. 410-412
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Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific by Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (review)

Molly Wallace
pp. 412-413
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Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern thought and Aesthetics by Gerhard Richter (review)

Allen Dunn
pp. 414-415
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How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art by Paul B. Armstrong (review)

Patrick Colm Hogan
pp. 416-418
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The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama by Philip Lorenz (review)

Elizabeth Reinwald
pp. 418-420
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Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation by Henry Somers-Hall (review)

Claudio Celis
pp. 420-422
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The Nature of Trauma in American Novels by Michelle Balaev (review)

Henry James Morello
pp. 422-425
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Political Writings by Simone de Beauvoir (review)

Laura Hengehold
pp. 425-427
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Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism by Jeffrey T. Nealon (review)

Andrew Shipley
pp. 427-429
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Beauty Unlimited ed. by Peg Zeglin Brand (review)

M. B. Willard
pp. 429-431
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Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin (review)

Marcel Cornis-Pope
pp. 431-434
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The Literary Agamben: Adventures in Logopoiesis by William Watkin (review)

Kathleen Eamon
pp. 434-436
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A Handbook of Modernism Studies ed. by Jean Michel Rabaté (review)

Patrick Bixby
pp. 436-438
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 440-443
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