Misery – Thomas Travers

Surplus Populations and the Novel (Work in Progress)

Below is a first draft of an introduction to an essay that revives a long dormant project on the ‘spaces of capital’. The initial prompt to return to this work came from Maurizio Lazzarato’s framing of luxury subjectivities and trash subjectivities in Revolutions of Capitalism. In Hwang Sok-yong’s Familiar Things, workers can no longer affordContinue reading “Surplus Populations and the Novel (Work in Progress)”