Academia and the Luster of Capital

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Memories of an Ex-Historian......Page 10
Society without History......Page 14
Capitalism after Nietzsche......Page 16
Intellectual Work, High Universities......Page 20
Concluding Remarks......Page 22
Initial Skepticisms......Page 26
Undoing Academic Benevolence......Page 28
Criticism, Superhistoricality......Page 30
Standard of Living and Academic Ideals......Page 31
Academic Mythification......Page 34
Without Hegel......Page 37
Unhistorical Nonspeculation......Page 38
The Linguistic Relay......Page 40
Realism or . . . ?......Page 43
Not Identity Books but More Ideas......Page 44
Culture and University: Gravest Doubts......Page 46
Concluding Remarks......Page 50
Introductory Remarks......Page 53
Control Codes, Affirmative Action......Page 56
Pseudolegalism and Cultural Exclusions: An Art School Context (1985–86)......Page 70
Superstars: Myth and Science......Page 81
Concluding Remarks......Page 86
Introductory Remarks......Page 88
Habermas's Model......Page 89
Lyotard's Notion of Dispossession......Page 96
Conclusion: Myth and Criticism......Page 103
Introductory Remarks......Page 106
Modernity, Temporalities......Page 112
"Has Happened" and Capital......Page 116
Narration, Criticism......Page 120
Why the Signifier "History" Is Not Communicative......Page 124
On the Way to Uselessness......Page 125
After History: From the Irreversible to . . .......Page 126
Modernism Again......Page 133
Leaving Is Not Psychological......Page 136
Deleuzian "Untimeliness"......Page 139
Nihilism, History......Page 145
Concluding Remarks......Page 146
Introductory Remarks......Page 148
Cultural Models......Page 152
Historicization and Theories of Art Criticism......Page 157
Lyotard's Model of the Postmodern......Page 164
Baudrillardian Demonics That Shatter History......Page 171
Concluding Remarks......Page 180
Notes......Page 182
Bibliography......Page 198
B......Page 204
D......Page 205
H......Page 206
M......Page 207
S......Page 208
Z......Page 209