Crisis and Criticism

Benjamin Noys, DPhil (1998), University of Sussex, is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester. His publications include The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Malign Velocities (Zero Books, 2014) and The Matter of Language (Seagull, 2023).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1 The Moment of Critique1 The Distance of Critique2 Matter against Materialism3 Apocalypse and CrisisPart 2 Crisis Culture4 The Aesthetics of Crisis5 Scale, Commodity, Totality6 The Crisis of European PhilosophyPart 3 Crisis and Communisation7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles8 Communisation and the End of Art9 War and CommunisationPart 4 Critical Figures10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark FisherConclusionBibliographyIndex