Thinking Blue / Writing Red: Marxism and the (Post)Human - cover image

Copyright

Stephen Tumino

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80064-877-7
Hardback978-1-80064-878-4
PDF978-1-80064-879-1
HTML978-1-80064-883-8
XML978-1-80064-882-1
EPUB978-1-80064-880-7

Language

  • English

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 234 mm (6.14" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 234 mm (6.14" x 9.21")

THEMA

  • JHMC
  • JHBA
  • KCSA
  • JPFC

BIC

  • JHMC
  • HBLX
  • JPFC
  • JFM

BISAC

  • SOC002010
  • SOC026040
  • POL042060
  • POL005000

Keywords

  • Contemporary culture
  • social movements
  • Marxism
  • Popular culture
  • Social movements
  • Capitalism

    Thinking Blue / Writing Red

    Marxism and the (Post)Human

    • Stephen Tumino (author)
    FORTHCOMING
    Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic (‘Covid’ and ‘Trump Speak’) to high theory (Melville's narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé's ‘Formation’ and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by Derrida’s idea of the secret, Tumino examines the significance of social movements (Black Lives Matter, Occupy, alter-globalization) and naïve art (Darger, Ryden) to argue that these texts speak of the secrets that capitalism cannot speak. Contending that the cultural surfaces narrate only the ‘nonsecret,’ that to see the social logic of the culture one must dig into what Bruno Latour questions as the ‘deep dark below,’ Thinking Blue/Writing Red reads these texts to tease out the underlying narratives of the culture of capital.

    This book will be of interest to students in several disciplines, including philosophy, literary and cultural studies, film studies, women's studies, critical race studies, history, LGBTQ+ studies and environmental studies.

    Endorsements

    I believe Tumino’s book makes an important and necessary contribution to radical discourse through its encompassing and sophisticated critique of mainstream media, higher education, pop culture, and political economy.

    Prof. Steven Wexler

    California State University, Northridge

    Contributors

    Stephen Tumino

    (author)
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute
    https://www.pratt.edu/people/stephen-tumino/

    Stephen Tumino is the author of Cultural Theory after the Contemporary (Palgrave Macmillan), and co-author of Human All Too (Post)Human: The Humanities after Humanism (Lexington), and many essays in such distinguished journals as Rethinking Marxism, Textual Practice, Nature, Society & Thought and Nineteenth Century Prose. His public writings have appeared in such outlets as New Politics, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, and Cosmonaut Magazine. Some of his essays have been translated into Spanish, Turkish and Persian. He has delivered many scholarly papers in such international scholarly conferences as the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, The Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting, the Rethinking Marxism International Conference, and the annual Marxist Literary Group conference. At the present time, he teaches Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute and is currently working on a book on weird realism and fantastic literature for Palgrave-Macmillan (Weird/Dark/Gothic: Capitalism and the Literary Fantastic), and is editing a collection of essays on the pandemic to be published by Routledge (Marxism and Pandemic: The Materialist Anatomy of a Social Crisis).