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Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.
Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the "revolutionary" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic.
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Humanities to the Rescue
David R. Castillo
Continental Theory and Graphic Narrative: A Long Yet Missed Encounter
Jan Baetens
When Poetry Talks Theory: Language Poetry and New Narrative's Dialogue with Continental Critical Theory and Philosophy
Vincent Broqua
OulipoHack
Peter Consenstein
Poststructuralist Turn?
Jonathan Culler
France, 1968, and the Radical Politics of 1970s Film Theory
Jane M. Gaines
Postscriptum on the Master's Tools
Lucile Haute
Return to Form? Expanded Formalism and the Idea of Literature
Alison James
Not Reading Blanchot: Theory and Practice
Émile Lévesque-Jalbert
Politics and Life Are Not Coextensive: Nancy, Badiou, Balibar, and General Equivalence
Alberto Moreiras
Is Love Revolutionary? Lacan and Duras after '68
Fernanda Negrete
May '68 and SubStance
Michel Pierssens
May '68 and the Crisis of Philosophy of History: Georges Bataille, Furio Jesi, and Latin America
Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott
Afterword: Ends of Thinking in Computational Age
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Contributors
Index
