{"product_id":"right-wing-culture-in-contemporary-capitalism-regression-and-hope-in-a-time-without-future-paperback","title":"Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMathias Nilges\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris O'Kane\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWerner Bonefeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the ability to imagine change-culturally, socially, and politically-has become one of the defining problems of our time. But what is the difference between the populist narratives of those who promise to solve this problem by returning us to a glorious past and those who promise to lead us into a glorious future? Often, this book argues, not very much at all. Revealing neo-authoritarianism and capitalist hyper-innovation as two sides of the same coin, Mathias Nilges shows that today's reactionaries and futurists both harness and profit from the same temporal crises of our present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking to design, popular culture, literature, and recent theoretical and political discussions, Nilges offers ways of understanding the re-emergence of familiar and disturbing forms of right-wing politics and culture (authoritarianism, paternalism, fascism) not as historical repetition but as dangerous consequences of the contradictions of capitalism today. Using critical theory, in particular the work of Ernst Bloch, this book recovers a politics and culture of hope, which it locates beyond a future that is colonized by capitalism and a past that becomes the mystical playground for the new Right: in that which was never allowed to be and thus demands realization.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMathias Nilges\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He has co-edited the books\u003ci\u003e Literary Materialisms\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eMarxism and the Critique of Value\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eThe Contemporaneity of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Global Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and \u003ci\u003ePeriodizing the Future: William Gibson, Genre, and Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47502480343218,"sku":"9781350251304","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6afe17311eb62b878da3bbe0bffaf906.webp?v=1779465287","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/right-wing-culture-in-contemporary-capitalism-regression-and-hope-in-a-time-without-future-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}