By chance I recently finished two novels in which the commodity, that elementary form of the capitalist mode of production, acquires a voice and personality. They approach this personification of things, however, from diametrically opposed perspectives and interests. Commodities in Valerie Werder’s auto fictional novel Thieves (2023) are the object of the appetites of theContinue reading “Lines of Flight?”
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The Crisis of Narration
Review The crisis of literary studies as a critical practice and an academic profession animates season eight of the American Vandal podcast. A landmark survey of the institutional histories, proclivities and potential futures of literary criticism, the crisis is presented as one of method but also of labor. A crisis of method, as critics areContinue reading “The Crisis of Narration”
Thomas Travers 