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Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores how it structures both knowledge and social change.
From Karl Marx's decision to publish Capital in serial form to contemporary adaptations in manga and graphic novels, Seriality and Social Change examines how serialization both democratizes knowledge and shapes the very process of social transformation. Peter Hitchcock delves into the paradox of the serial: while it can expand access to radical thought, it can also impose structural limits, slowing or containing the revolutionary potential it seeks to unleash.
Through a sweeping analysis that links literature and political economy, Hitchcock explores how serialized narratives frame, sustain, or even hinder movements for change. Does seriality mirror the mechanics of capitalism, or can it be a tool for subverting them? Engaging with this question across genres and forms, Seriality and Social Change invites readers to rethink how revolution is told and imagined over time.
Contents
Part One: A Story of Capital
1.What Is Seriality?
2.Serial Marx
3.Sartre and Seriality
4.A Dialectics of Seriality
5.Deleuze, in Series
6.Towards Manga Marx?
7.Gellert, or Lithographic Capital
8.Capital, the Manga
9.Conclusion: Telling Capital
Part Two: "Other" Serializations: Serialization as Other
10.Towards the Serial as History and Image
11.Graphic Ideas of the Commune
12.Rebel Without an Affect: Serializing the Post-Human
13.Novelization and Serialization
14.Serialization as Novel and Nation
15.Conclusion: On the Next Issue
