Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: All We Have Is Now
2 Looking Backward: Nonsynchronism in the Long Now of Capitalism
	The long now, a crisis of capitalist temporality
	The temporal demos undone
	The dialectic of aesthetic form and anticipatory consciousness
	Nonsynchronism and the distribution of time
	Bloch now: Tracing hope in a time of crisis
	The untimeliness of Bloch: Utopian thought and critical theory
3 The New Paternalism: Anti-Capitalism and Right-Wing Nostalgia
	Why anti-postmodernism now? Angry young men and the desire for fathers
	Sentimentalism for men, the musty new scent by contemporary capitalism
	Right-wing agitation, anti-postmodernism, and anti-Marxism
4 Mystifications or Lumberjacks without Forests
	Identitarian attacks on identity politics: A right-wing veil for capitalism’s contradictions
	Fascism: Capitalist crisis management
	Romantic anti-capitalism
	Getting back in touch with the homeland
5 Completing the Thought of the Past: Literature as Utopian Method
	Hope: Material hunger for what’s missing
	“To Speak of the unspeakable”: The novel as utopian thought
	Occupy dreaming: Decolonizing the future
Notes
Index