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

Commentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present...
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Author: Mathias Nilges
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Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future by Nilges, Mathias

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

Dhs. 399.85

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

Dhs. 399.85
Author: Mathias Nilges
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Commentators 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.

Looking 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.

Author: Mathias Nilges
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 06/17/2021
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781350251304

About the Author
Mathias Nilges is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He has co-edited the books Literary Materialisms (2013), Marxism and the Critique of Value (2014), The Contemporaneity of Modernism (2016), Literature and the Global Contemporary (2017), and Periodizing the Future: William Gibson, Genre, and Cultural History (2019).

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