Literature and Materialisms (Literature and Contemporary Thought)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Series editors’ preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The disconcerting materiality of literature
	What is materialism?
	Why new materialisms?
	What is the relation between literature and materialism?
	What is the plan?
	Note
1. Materialism and belief: On religion and politics
	War on beliefs
	God, or Nature
	The death of God
	Sade: A materialist abyss
	The “Mortal God”: Materialism in politics
	“Awake!” or: How to defeat a chimera?
	Materialism, skepticism, and the price of truth
	Notes
2. Materialism and economics: On Marxism, ideology, and culture
	The dream of Marx
	Do not interpret, revolutionize!
	The ideology of ideology
	Headed to the hegemonic struggle, or: How to make
one’s ideas win
	Material culture and the shaping of the senses
	The culture industry: Commodities, fetishes, and the end of
culture
	American Psycho: Disenchanted subjects in a world of
enchanted objects
	A materialism without guarantees
	Notes
3. Materialism and Subject: On anti-colonialism, postcolonialism, and feminism
	The blind spot of the victorious subject
	The wretched of the earth and her combat literature
	The postcolonial subject against identity idealism
	Midnight’s Children and its magic script
	The voice of the subaltern and the loss of Friday’s tongue
	Feminist materialism: The “other” woman
	From texts to technogenders
	Notes
4. Materialism and life: On new materialism and vitalism
	Escaping the reading room
	Against the empire of the human subject
	From matter to materialization
	Intraconnected matter and the environment
	New materialism and vitalism
	Materialists should not say “everything is” (except if
they want to dream)
	Materialism and the vitalist part of ethics
	After biopolitics: Politics of materialities
	Notes
5. Materialism and ontology: On empiricism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology
	What is real?
	Troubling experiences: Perceiving, interpreting, and
hallucinating reality
	Yes, mind-independent reality exists; but, now, let us speculate
	Reality = objects, not matter
	Cthulhu is not alone
	Existence always disrupts ontology
	Notes
6. Materialism and realism: On literary realism, naturalism, and objectivist poetry
	Literature and the existential profusion of the real
	The healthy paradox of literary realism
	Literary realism excess: Huckleberry Finn and The Grapes of
Wrath
	Who is calling? The wild
	On so-called “objectivist” poetry
	Reality is more than what we think: A materialism of the excess
	Notes
7. Materialism and matter: On physics and quantum physics
	The matter hypothesis
	Winged lion and cosmic elves: How material the universe is?
	A cat not so cat(egorical): Towards an “aleatory materialism”
	Incomplete characters
	The contingent origin of novels
	Style and its “negative capabilities”
	Writing as a material collapse
	Notes
8. Materialism and language: Materiality, immateriality, and creation
	The linguistic machine
	Pile-up: The new materialist approach to language
	Pile-up or take-off?
	Language as a materiality without matter
	The paradoxical materiality of literature
	Creation and literature as a foreign language
	The materialist moment: A moment of immanence
	Notes
Conclusion: Ghost materialism
	The materialist experience of thought
	Materialism and literature
	Materialism, matter, and the problem of reality
	Materialism and politics
	Notes
Index