"Crimes of the Future sees one of the world's leading literary theorists exploring the past, present and potential future of Theory"-- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction;...
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"Crimes of the Future sees one of the world's leading literary theorists exploring the past, present and potential future of Theory"-- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Hunger games; History displays its Scotland Yard badge; Crime and the "aura"; Crime and the abortion of the future; A cat is being cut; 1 How Global Should Theory Be?; Global cultural capital; Intranslations; Compensation; Theory in an expanded field; Decompensation; Untimely theories of the future; 2 Theory and its Lines of Flight Future, ancient, fugitive; Lines of flight; Beings of flight; Fears of flying; Laughing at theory; 3 Investigations of a Kantian Dog. Investigations of a dogBobby, the Last Kantian dog; From Bobby to Albertine; Robert Antelme and the "human species"; 4 Divided Truths on Lies Derrida with Hannah Arendt; 5 Derrida's Anterior Futures; The economy of the future; Pascal's wager; Wagering the Wagnis: Pascal, Rilke, Heidegger; Mallarmé's die; Toward a ghostlier futurity; 6 A Future without Death?; 7 The No Future of an Illusion; 8 The Styles of Theory Crimes against fecundity; Le style, c'est l'homme même; Le style c'est la femme même; Le style, c'est le crime même; 9 Universalism and its LimitsThe reasons of the absurd. Kafk a between Greenberg and LeavisCamus, Kafk a, and the aphoristic tradition; From Camus's Kafk a to Derrida's "Stranger"; Badiou versus Adorno on the value of Beckett; 10 After the "Altermodern"; The concept of modernism and its theory; Bourriaud and the "Altermodern"; Stan Douglas's "Vidéo," or how to bring Kafk a and Beckett together; 11 Conclusion The long-lasting joke of the future (Marx and Kafka, Althusser and Antigone); The laughter of the capitalist; Antigone's laughter; Kafka and the jokes of the future; Althusser's joke: Is the future lasting forever, or just for a long time?
