Evan Gottlieb is Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA.

• Introduction Structure of the book and some caveats References Forms Matters of form in the twentieth century Terry Eagleton: the Marxist critic as public intellectual Fredric Jameson: committing to form and historyFranco Moretti: maps, graphs, and distant reading Engaging with classic literature: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park Engaging with contemporary literature: Ian McEwan’s Atonement Engaging with film and new media: Austen on the big screenReferences Discourses Matters of discourse in modernity Jean Baudrillard: prophet of the postmodern Giorgio Agamben: a genealogy of biopolitics Rey Chow: entangling ethnicity, visuality, and languageEngaging with classic literature: Emily Brontё’s Wuthering Heights Engaging with contemporary literature: Hari Kunzru’s White TearsEngaging with film and new media: EasyReferences Subjectivities and embodiments The birth of the subjectSlavoj Žižek: theorizing with psychoanalysis and MarxismJudith Butler: beyond gender performativityCatherine Malabou: philosophy, plasticity, neuroscienceEngaging with classic literature: Daniel Defoe’s The Adventures of Robinson CrusoeEngaging with contemporary literature: Donna Tartt’s The GoldfinchEngaging with film and new media: The Fall References Media, networks, machinesToward our contemporary media momentJacques Rancière: aesthetics for everyoneBruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyondN. Katherine Hayles: defining the posthumanEngaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker’s DraculaEngaging with contemporary literature: Gwyneth Jones’s Proof of ConceptEngaging with film and new media: Ryan Coogler’s Black PantherReferences Animals, affects, objects, environmentsWe have never been humanDonna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, ChthuluceneSara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoysTimothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontologyEngaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinEngaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer’s AnnihilationEngaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird References

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