Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics by Christopher Breu (review)

[...]Naked Lunch like all the texts under consideration is riven with the biopolitcal and thanatopolitical, which forms the crux of a literature of materiality. Silko, according to Breu, articulates the importance of "recognizing the political import of the nonhuman and the material," whic...

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Published in:Symploke (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2018, Vol.26 (1), p.529-530
Main Author: Grattan, Sean
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Biopolitics
Burroughs, William S
Burroughs, William S (1914-1997)
Contemporary literature
Deleuze, Gilles
Negation
Politics
Postmodernism
Pynchon, Thomas
Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948- )
Theory
Utopias
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Summary:[...]Naked Lunch like all the texts under consideration is riven with the biopolitcal and thanatopolitical, which forms the crux of a literature of materiality. Silko, according to Breu, articulates the importance of "recognizing the political import of the nonhuman and the material," which helps produce an understanding of the "qualitative materiality and irreducibly material genesis of the resources we use in constructing our late-capitalist imagescapes" (180). Gimme Gimme That: Annihilation and Innovation in the Punk Rock Commons" as Muñoz also insists on the crucial role negation plays in the production of a utopian commons.) Attending more closely to a utopian turn in combination with materiality would add a thickness to the readings while also gesturing to the radical openness of Breu's theoretical commitments.
ISSN:1069-0697
1534-0627