Sublime Economy

Author : Jack Amariglio,Joseph W. Childers,Stephen E. Cullenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134002917

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Sublime Economy by Jack Amariglio,Joseph W. Childers,Stephen E. Cullenberg Pdf

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly "modern" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art’s own autonomy and, therefore, its privileged, mostly critical, gaze at the terrible mixture of wonder and horror of capitalist economic practices and institutions. The premise of this collection is that despite this perceptual sharing, "sublime economy" has yet to be investigated in a purely cross-disciplinary way. Sublime Economy seeks to map this critical territory by exploring the ways diverse concepts of economy and economic value have been culturally constituted and disseminated through modern art and cultural practice. Comprising of 14 individual essays along with an editors’ introduction, Sublime Economy draws together work from some of the leading scholars in the several fields currently exploring the intersection of economic and aesthetic practices and discourses. A pressing issue of this cross-disciplinary conversation is to discern how artists’, writers’, and cultural scholars’ constructions of distinct conceptions of economic value, as pertains to aesthetic objects as well as to more "everyday" objects and relations of mass consumption, have contributed to the ways "value" functions in and across disparate discourses. Thus this book looks at how cultural critics and theorists have put forward working notions of economic value that have regularities and effects similar to those of the "expert" conceptions and discourses about value that have been the preserve of professional economists.

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501717642

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Postmodern Sublime by Joseph Tabbi Pdf

Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing—the technological sublime.

Author : Christophe Den Tandt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252067045

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The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism by Christophe Den Tandt Pdf

In this dynamic reappraisal of American literary naturalism, Christophe Den Tandt connects late nineteenth-century fiction to its romantic, urban gothic roots and to recent discussions of the sublime in postmodern theory. Den Tandt focuses on aspects of naturalist novels -- their use of hyperbole and hysteria, of the grotesque and the abject, of uncanniness and mesmerism -- that have often been left in the periphery of naturalist discourse. He argues that realistic strategies of literary representation can never succeed in depicting the urban environment since the logic of the city rests on a network of hidden relations. Naturalist texts try to resolve this dilemma by opposing sublime components and realistic documentary elements.

Author : Jose R Torre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317315278

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The Political Economy of Sentiment by Jose R Torre Pdf

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.

Author : Marcos Mendoza
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813596761

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The Patagonian Sublime by Marcos Mendoza Pdf

The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid, accessible, and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy. Mendoza explores the fraught intersection of the green economy with the New Left politics of the Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner governments. Mendoza documents the strategies of capitalist development, national representation, and political rule embedded in the “green productivist” agenda pursued by Kirchner and Fernández. Mendoza shows how Andean Patagonian communities have responded to the challenges of community-based conservation, the fashioning of wilderness zones, and the drive to create place-based monopolies that allow ecotourism destinations to compete in the global consumer economy.

Author : James Noggle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195349573

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The Skeptical Sublime by James Noggle Pdf

This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an astonishing force in discourse that cannot be controlled--"doubt's boundless Sea," in Rochester's words--and as such is consistently seen as affiliated with the sublime, itself emerging as an important way to conceive of excessive power in rhetoric, nature, psychology, religion, and politics. This view of skepticism as a force affecting discourse beyond its practitioners' control links Noggle's discussion to other theoretical accounts of sublimity, especially psychoanalytic and ideological ones, that emphasize the sublime's activation of unconscious personal and cultural anxieties and contradictions. But because The Skeptical Sublime demonstrates the sublime's roots in the epistemological obsessions of Pope and his age, it also grounds such theories in what is historically evident in the period's writing. The skeptical sublime is a concrete, primary instance of the transformation of modernity's main epistemological liability, its loss of certainty, into an aesthetic asset--retaining, however, much of the unsettling irony of its origins in radical doubt. By examining the cultural function of such persistent instability, this book seeks to clarify the aesthetic ideology of major writers like Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester, among others, who have been seen, sometimes confusingly, as both reactionary and supportive of the liberal-Whig model of taste and civil society increasingly dominant in the period. While they participate in the construction of proto-aesthetic categories like the sublime to stabilize British culture after decades of civil war and revolution, their appreciation of the skepticism maintained by these means of stabilization helps them express ambivalence about the emerging social order and distinguishes their views from the more providentially assured appeals to the sublime of their ideological opponents.

Author : Helene Cixous
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1452900507

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Reading With Clarice Lispector by Helene Cixous Pdf

Author : Steven O. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415588560

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The Political Economy of Bureaucracy by Steven O. Richardson Pdf

Richardson offers a careful analysis of US federal agencies examining the interaction between executive and legislative branches of government, combining Austrian economics, Public Choice and Evolutionary methodology in his approach.

Author : David Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134048489

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The Political Economy of Work by David Spencer Pdf

This book offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work, challenging some common preconceptions and promoting an original approach to the field, contemplating its nature, development and its impact on human well-being.

Author : David Laibman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136664229

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Political Economy After Economics by David Laibman Pdf

This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense. An economics-enriched political economy is, above all, empowering: working people in general can calculate, build models, think theoretically, and contribute to a human-worthy future, rather than leaving all this to their "betters."

Author : Sonia Marie Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415699211

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Architectures of Economic Subjectivity by Sonia Marie Scott Pdf

"The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe. This work takes a different approach. It explores the philosophical groundwork of the theoretical structure within which economic subjects are presented. Demonstrating how the subjects of economic texts tend to be defined in and through their relationship to knowledge, this study addresses the epistemological constitution of subjectivity in economic thought."--Publisher's website.

Author : Solomon Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136220883

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Economic Models for Policy Making by Solomon Cohen Pdf

Over the past decades, many different kinds of models have been developed that have been of use to policy makers, but until now the different approaches have not been brought together with a view to enhancing the systematic unification and evaluation of these models. This new volume aims to fill this gap by bringing together four decades’ worth of work by S. I. Cohen on economic modelling for policy making. Work on older models has been rewritten and brought fully up to date, and these older models have therefore been brought back to the fore, both to assess how they influenced more recent models and to see how they could be used today. The focus of the book is on models for development policies in developing economies, but there are some chapters that relate to economic policies in transition and developed economies. The policy areas covered are of typical interest in developing and transition economies. They include those relating to trade liberalization reforms, sustainable development, industrial development, agrarian reform, growth and distribution, human resource development and education, public goods and income transfers. Each chapter contains a brief assessment of the empirical literature on the economic effects of the policy measures discussed in the chapter. The book presents a platform of economic modelling that can serve as a refresher for practising professionals, as well as a reference companion for graduates engaging in economic modelling and policy preparations.

Author : Namita Vijay Dharia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520383098

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The Industrial Ephemeral by Namita Vijay Dharia Pdf

Introduction : An asynchronic timeline -- Ephemeral infrastructures -- The financial sublime -- Drawing fantasies -- The industry of sound -- Inside the pit -- Concrete love -- Conclusion : Inquilab zindabad -- Appendix : list of masterplans affecting gurgaon.

Author : Christopher L. Nobbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415524407

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Economics, Sustainability, and Democracy by Christopher L. Nobbs Pdf

This text argues that the major economic problems of the present century involve issues of public goods and common pool resources with which orthodox economic theory, based as it is on private markets, is ill-equipped to deal.

Author : Robert F Garnett Jr,Erik Olsen,Martha Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135230593

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Economic Pluralism by Robert F Garnett Jr,Erik Olsen,Martha Starr Pdf

Economists in the post-Cold War era are increasingly circumspect about universal, one-size-fits-all conceptions of human behaviour and economic institutions. Contemporary economics is thus marked by a nascent pluralism. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore. Its twenty original essays explore the positive potential and critical limits of pluralism in economic theory, philosophy, institutions, and policies, and education. These twenty original essays reflect the maturity and breadth of pluralist scholarship in economics today. The first eight chapters (including critical essays by Tony Lawson, Diana Strassmann et al., Frederic Lee, and David Colander) stake out contentious positions on the value of pluralism in economic theory and philosophy. The remaining chapters explore the meaning and consequences of pluralism in economic education, institutions, and policies. This volume provides a unique "second generation" discussion of pluralism in economics. Its twenty original essays stake out contentious positions on pluralism in economic theory, philosophy, institutions, and policies, and education, reflecting multiple generations and traditions of thought. It is a volume certain to spur wider conversation about the scope and value of economic pluralism for the 21st century. This volume would be of most interest as a supplementary text for graduate or undergraduate courses that include units on heterodox economics or economic philosophy.