Post-PostModernism Or, The Cultural Logic of Just-In-Time Capitalism by Jeffrey T. Nealon is a book I picked up because the Hedgehog Review had a whole issue devoted to Post-PostModernism and I needed some sort of background before the magazine arrived.
Started: 5/21/2017
Completed: 11/5/2017 (stopped reading)
Recommendation: Not recommended--run away.
Recommended By: Google web search on the topic, this seems to be the current survey text
Words and phrases for which I sought help:
chiasmus -- an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases
infelicitous -- inappropriate or awkward; not well said
Review:
Simply unending double speak. 6 months wasted on this book. Here is the sentence that ended it: "However incredibly productive and oppositional this deconstructive insight has proven to be over the years, Negri points out that our contemporary masters (corporations, media conglomerates, spin doctors, finance capitalists, port-Fordist outsourcers of all kinds) no longer dream of a kind of exclusionary, binary totalization and don't achieve their hegemonic effects primarily through a normatively repressive logocentrism." If you can make sense of that, then you should read this book. Otherwise, run away.
Simply unending double speak. 6 months wasted on this book. Here is the sentence that ended it: "However incredibly productive and oppositional this deconstructive insight has proven to be over the years, Negri points out that our contemporary masters (corporations, media conglomerates, spin doctors, finance capitalists, port-Fordist outsourcers of all kinds) no longer dream of a kind of exclusionary, binary totalization and don't achieve their hegemonic effects primarily through a normatively repressive logocentrism." If you can make sense of that, then you should read this book. Otherwise, run away.
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