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The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the late Mark Fisher's work on "post-capitalist desire" and "acid communism." The main imperative is to formulate a possible (and, as it turns out, necessary) opening for aesthetic critique in the climate of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. This mode of aesthetic critique is then operationalized through an exemplary reading of the emancipatory poetics of Ben Lerner's 2014 novel "10:04."
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Lukas Schutzbach is a PhD candidate at the English Department of the University of Heidelberg. His research focusses on the intersection of neoliberalism, contemporary American literature, and questions of critical theory and aesthetics.
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Book Title: There Is an Alternative
Book Subtitle: With Herbert Marcuse and Mark Fisher Towards a Political Aesthetics of Neoliberalism
Authors: Lukas Schutzbach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66237-3
Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-66236-6Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-66237-3Published: 26 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 149
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, North American Literature