Arne De Boever: 2 books
States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel
Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt...
Finance Fictions
Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted...