Seriality and Social Change

Peter Hitchcock teaches literature, film, and theory at the City University of New York (CUNY). He is also the associate director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. His published books include Labor in Culture; or, Worker of the World(s), The Long Space, Imaginary States, and Dialogics of the Oppressed.

• Part One: A Story of Capital1.What Is Seriality?2.Serial Marx3.Sartre and Seriality4.A Dialectics of Seriality5.Deleuze, in Series6.Towards Manga Marx?7.Gellert, or Lithographic Capital8.Capital, the Manga9.Conclusion: Telling CapitalPart Two: “Other” Serializations: Serialization as Other10.Towards the Serial as History and Image11.Graphic Ideas of the Commune12.Rebel Without an Affect: Serializing the Post-Human13.Novelization and Serialization 14.Serialization as Novel and Nation 15.Conclusion: On the Next Issue

“Hitchcock offers a dense, deliberate, theoretically informed close reading of the work in question, one that aims to keep in place or enhance its complexity rather than to explain it away . . . This is a formidable work of postcolonial theory that deserves a close and careful read by anyone with an interest in transnational literature.”