Anarcho-Modernism
Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2014
512 pages
978-0-88922-873-3 (ISBN)
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This volume is a collection of 38 pieces - essays, poems, extracts - unified by a combination of the playful, primitive aesthetic of literary modernism with the anti-authoritarian, anarchist praxis of radical democratic politics. This bi-polar sensibility permeates the work of Jerry Zaslove, to whom the book is dedicated.
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Ian Angus was born in England in 1949 and emigrated to Canada in 1958. He has a Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at United States, and is currently a professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. His recent books include figurations (Verso, 2000); Primal Scenes of Communication (SUNY Press, 2000); and A Border Within (McGill-Queens University Press, 1997).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Portrait of Jerry Zaslove
- Part One: The Industrialization of Culture
- Benjamin in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- "Destruction" and "Experience": Four Notes on Walter Benjamin
- What is Mechanical Reproduction?
- The Industrialization of Education and the Intellectual
- The Real versus the University Branch of the Culture Industry: The Academic Institutionalization of the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
- Part Two: Literature and Aesthetics
- Image-Nation 26 (Being-Thus
- The Literary Community: A Community of Those Who Have No Community
- In Search of a Democratic Aesthetic, or Does the Novel Still Matter?
- An Excursion into the Amateur Grotesque
- Ein Hungerkünstler: The Fine Art of Starving
- Notes on Kafka's Intention from in The Penal Colony
- A Translation of Stéphane Mallarmé's La Gloire
- The Films of Jan Svankmajer: Sweet Horror, or the Revenge of Childhood
- Yes Tribulation Bones
- The Leg
- The Panzaic Principle Once Again
- Part Three : Public Education and Literacy
- Literacy's Myths and Legacies: From Lessons from the History of Literacy, to the Question of Critical Literacy
- Stephen Duguid and Jane Harris, A Dangerous Business: Teaching Humanities on the Street and in the Gaol
- Timeless Values for a New Age
- Forever Mud: Zaslove as Teacher
- Creating Spaces of Possibility: Jerry Zaslove as Teacher
- Public Programming, Pedagogy and the Public Sphere: The Spectacular State
- Visions of the North-Scenario 3: Dreams of Exile
- Photos of Jerry Zaslov
- Part Four: Human Rights and Politics
- Aqui Se Torture / Here They Torture
- Antisemitism in the Pilgrim's Tale
- Negating Caste
- Tom Bottomore Speaking
- From Alienation to Community: An Existential Journey
- The Twentieth
- Interest, Ideology and Culture: From the Protocols of Peace to Schlesinger v. Quinto
- Globalization of Justice: Truth Commissions as an Alternative?
- Part Five: Anarchism and Friendship
- Anarchism Today
- Aldous Huxley as Anarchist
- The University as Anarcho-Community
- Technological Liberalism and the Anarchic Actor
- Jerry Zaslove's Utopia
- On Friendship (excerpt)
- Sharing Secrets, or On Burrowing in Public
- Contributors
- Copyright Page
