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A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.
Uniting personal history with cultural history, Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries tells a story of a mind, a time, and a culture. The vehicle or medium of this excursion is an overview and sampling of the author's work, and what is revealed are cautionary tales of a once-aspiring egalitarian democracy confronted with plutocracy's gentrification; of analog history and off-line life superseded by a rush toward virtualized, robotic, AI transformation of the human life-world; of everything social and public giving way to everything personal and opinionated. The vagaries of a lifetime of paths taken are woven together by a narrative that reveals in every piece a significance that was only partially present at its initial writing. Thus, the reader becomes involved in a developing story of a certain personal psyche working toward understanding its own development within a changing American culture. Sometimes angry, sometimes joyful, but always curious and wry, Joseph Natoli crosses the boundary lines of psychology, politics, literature, philosophy, education, and economics to show how we bring ourselves and our cultural imaginaries simultaneously into being through the processes and pleasures of thinking beyond the confines of the personal.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. William Blake: Prophet against Empire
Introduction, Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present
Excerpt from Mots d'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds
Why Are We Not Roused to Action?
2. A Patient Appears at the Psychiatrist's Office: The Turn to Phenomenological Psychopathology
Dark Affinities: The Father
Phenomenological Psychology and Literary Interpretation
The Code of Crisis and Disaster
3. The World Is a Book
Textual Studies and the Selection of Editions
Meditating on a Postmodern Strategy of Reading
Endless Deferment: The Inequitable Melee of Events and Words
4. Looking for Disorder in Literary Worlds
Mapping the Inconceivable: Disordering Taxonomies
5. Postmodernity Is a Hoot
Go to Citizen Kane to Find Twentieth-Century Modernism: On the Edge of Postmodernity
The Deep Morals of Inglourious Basterds
6. At the Theory Carnival
Preface to Tracing Literary Theory
Preface to Literary Theory's Future(s)
7. Into the American Mass Psyche of the Nineties
Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture
Hunting the Haunted Heart
Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993 -1995
Court and Culture: The Days of Our Life with O. J.
Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996 -1998
That Rug Really Tied the Room Together
Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999 -2000
After September 11, 2001
Hearing the Ping of Poverty—or Not
8. Railing through Europe: "Is This a Postmodern World?" 1995 -2010
This Is a Picture and Not the World
9. A Long Journey to Find an Online Political Home
Truthout's Public Intellectual Project
Political Affairs: "From each according to his ability to each according to their work"
Why the Rich Get Richer and Other Truth Stories
Bad Subjects: Politics in Everyday Life
The Leftist Psyche
The "Free Exchange of Ideas": Our New Normal
Counterpunching
Gun Control, Illegal Aliens, Moochers, Planned Parenthood, Gay Marriages, "Big Brother" Government, and Obama
10. Popular Culture: What I Did at the Movies
Doing the American Hustle
The Hateful Eight: History's Dark Bounty
11. I Roam into TV: Rebel Sons, Foodies, DBs, TV Pharmacy, and Sports
TV's Rebel Sons: The Anger of Deep Revolt
Autopsy TV
Food TV
The Emergence of Greater-than-Human Sports...and Baseball
12. Dark Affinities
Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal
The Economics of Immiseration/The Politics of Seduction
US Higher Education: The New "Treasure Island" for Investors
Plutocracy, Gentrification, and Racial Violence
13. Dark Imaginaries
What Climate Scenarios Do We Imagine?
A Modest Proposal, 2014
The Coming Transformation of Work to Leisure
The American Middle Class: The Political Chosen People?
14. Portrait of Generation Next
To Gaga Is to Dada
The Twitter Moment
Living Backward: The Millennials' Alice
Our Millennial Age of Magic
15. Occupy Wall Street
Epilogue to the Kindle Publication of Occupying Here & Now: The New Class Warfare
Psychomachia: Battles within the American Cultural Psyche
16. Travels of a New Gulliver
In Which the Author Introduces Himself and Then Sets Out
The Author Is Admitted to the Academy, Inhabited by Enormous-Headed Giants; Visits the Wick, the
Great Augury, and The Singularity Club; Meets a Terrorist, and Then Ends Badly
The Author Comes to the End of His Travels
Bibliography
Index
