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Are people nothing more than their physical capital--what their bodies can produce and provide? This philosophical treatise examines the idea of mutational bodies as it has appeared in fiction and cinema since the industrial era, theorizing that capitalism and other modern collective systems require transformations both literal and figurative for the individual to survive. Infringements on individualism include both the concept of eternity, which asks that we resign ourselves to life and death as endless waiting, and the Hegelian dialectic itself, which has been reversed by neoconservative thinkers into a new conviction that the rich are oppressed by the poor.
In response, this work suggests the inauguration of a post-dialectic "ethical materialism." Subjects considered include the films of Charlie Kaufman and Stan Brakhage, the fiction of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, the feminist art criticism of Lucy Lippard, and the meanings of virtuality and the internet.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: We Halcyonians
1. Motifs of Physical Capital and Bodily Transformation
2. Eternity and the Body
3. Fictional Bodies of the Great Depression
4. The Dean's Laughing Fit
5. The Road to Kotka at Night
6. The Aesthetics of Limbo
7. Window Babies
8. Surplus and Sacrifice
9. This Animal Which Is Not One
10. Dialectics at an Impasse
(In)conclusion: On the Evanescent
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
