Thinking Blue / Writing Red: Marxism and the (Post)Human

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tumino, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and culture.

Posthumanism.

Socialism and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Thinking Blue / Writing Red

Place of Publication:

Thoth Open Metadata 2024

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic ('Covid' and 'Trump Speak') to high theory (Melville's narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé's 'Formation' and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern 'cli-fi' films). Inspired by Derrida's idea of the secret, Tumino examines the significance of social movements (Black Lives Matter, Occupy, alter-globalization) and naïve art (Darger, Ryden) to argue that these texts speak of the secrets that capitalism cannot speak. Contending that the cultural surfaces narrate only the 'nonsecret,' that to see the social logic of the culture one must dig into what Bruno Latour questions as the 'deep dark below,' Thinking Blue/Writing Red reads these texts to tease out the underlying narratives of the culture of capital. This book will be of interest to students in several disciplines, including philosophy, literary and cultural studies, film studies, women's studies, critical race studies, history, LGBTQ+ studies and environmental studies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

A Class(ical) Preface

Theory

1. Marxism

2. (Post)humanity

3. Globality

Culture

4. Affect

5. Beyoncé

6. Bartleby

7. Paul

8. Occupy

9. Twin Peaks

10. Trump Speak

Critique

11. Capital

12. Critique

13. Covid

14. Communism

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80064-878-2

1-80064-879-0

OCLC:

1500763514