Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism

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A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media. Cover......Page 1 Title - complete......Page 4 Title - series......Page 3 Copyright Page......Page 5 Series Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Introduction: Modernist Marx, Marxist Modernism......Page 10 Notes......Page 20 Part 1: Conceptualizing Marx......Page 22 Chapter 1: Greek Ideology and Modern Politics in Marx’s First Works......Page 24 The Dissertation: Epicurus’ Carnival and Abstract-individual Self-Consciousness......Page 27 Greek Enlightenment and Greek Ideology: In the Garden of Meteors......Page 29 Living in Iron Times......Page 31 The End of the Carnival: Marxist Cynica......Page 32 Conclusion: Universal Chains and Proletarian Genericity......Page 34 Notes......Page 36 Chapter 2: Before the Manifesto: Märchen and the Impulse to Exorcism......Page 39 Notes......Page 47 Chapter 3: The Communist Manifesto and the Exhumation of Literature......Page 49 Marx and Dante......Page 51 Marx and Shakespeare......Page 52 Marx the Epicurean......Page 55 Notes......Page 58 Chapter 4: On France: Revolutions and Communes......Page 59 Notes......Page 69 Chapter 5: Jupiter against the Lightning-Rod: Literary Form in the Grundrisse......Page 73 Prehistory of Modernism’s Communism......Page 75 A Brief Drama of Potential Combatants......Page 76 Not-labor Time and the Collective Literary Program......Page 79 Notes......Page 81 Chapter 6: The Voices of Capital: Poetics of Critique beyond Sentiment and Cynicism......Page 83 The Commodity Form: Between Sentiment and Cynicism......Page 85 On History, the Darstellungsweise, and Double-voiced Discourse......Page 88 Notes......Page 92 Chapter 7: The Dialectics of Utopia: Critique of the Gotha Program......Page 95 Notes......Page 106 Chapter 8: Posthumous Publications: Capitalism’s Circuits and Reading for Totality......Page 108 Volume Two: The Circuits of Capital and Production of Crisis......Page 109 Volume Three: The Unseen, the Natural, and the Necessity of Interpretation......Page 112 Ground Rent and Reading Resources......Page 115 Notes......Page 117 Part 2: Marx in Modernism......Page 122 Chapter 9: Marx in the Modernist Novel......Page 124 Notes......Page 131 Chapter 10: Marx and Modernist Poetry......Page 133 Niedecker’s Depression Lyrics......Page 134 Hughes’ ‘Song of the Revolution’......Page 137 Rukeyser’s Elegy for Labor......Page 139 Notes......Page 142 Chapter 11: Marx and Cinema......Page 143 Notes......Page 153 Chapter 12: Theatrical Proletarians......Page 155 A Kind of Work-related Accident......Page 158 Worthless, Superfluous, Even Bothersome......Page 160 There Ought To be More Like Her......Page 163 Removed at a Single Blow......Page 166 Notes......Page 167 Chapter 13: Marx, Music, Modernism......Page 171 Notes......Page 178 Chapter 14: Constructing Socialism: Marxism, Modernism, and Architecture......Page 181 Notes......Page 190 Chapter 15: Marx and Popular Modernism......Page 193 Splinters......Page 195 The Infernal Dream of Animation......Page 197 Modernist-Marxist Fairy Tales......Page 200 Notes......Page 202 Part 3: Glossary of Key Terms......Page 204 Chapter 16: The Commodity......Page 206 Notes......Page 208 Chapter 17: Labor......Page 209 Notes......Page 210 Chapter 18: Value......Page 211 Notes......Page 212 Chapter 19: Money......Page 213 Notes......Page 215 Chapter 20: The General Formula of Capital......Page 216 Chapter 21: Class......Page 218 Notes......Page 219 Chapter 22: Technology......Page 220 Notes......Page 222 Chapter 23: Family......Page 223 Notes......Page 225 Chapter 24: Ideology......Page 226 Notes......Page 227 Chapter 25: Alienation......Page 228 Notes......Page 229 Chapter 26: Materialism......Page 230 Notes......Page 231 Chapter 27: Colonization......Page 232 Notes......Page 233 Chapter 28: Nature......Page 235 Notes......Page 237 Chapter 29: Revolution......Page 238 Notes......Page 239 Chapter 30: Communism......Page 240 Notes......Page 242 Chapter 31: Utopia......Page 243 Notes......Page 244 Contributors......Page 246 Index......Page 250