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This paper intends to understand how the narrative configuration performed by the narrator-character Rodrigo S.M. formalizes the active paradigm of the cultural industry in the aesthetic composition and the problematic of the national identity when following the new tendencies on the use of the language. The premise of the research relates to the difficulties posed at the moment of the narration, which, in addition to the discussion of self-writing and alterity, raise the "overwhelming feeling of the false position of everything that concerns Brazilian culture." (ARANTES, 1997, p.14). The novel A hora da estrela, due to the narrative built, is important in the questioning of the limits of artistic representation and in the ambiguous status of the Brazilian condition, revealing that "life in late capitalism is a continuous rite of initiation. Everyone has to show that they fully identify with the power of those who do not cease to receive blows ". (ADORNO, 2006, p. 127) According to the characters, Rodrigo and Macabea, the novel by Clarice Lispector brings the work of the writer closer to that of typewriter, contributing to show the ideological emptying of industrial society and the insertion of culture into the logic of fetishism and commodification. Thus, this analysis will reflect on how the narrator, despite his rationalization, is atrophied in the capacity to narrate, reproducing the implacable ideology of the masses.

For most STS scholars, the details of world-system theorization are not of concern. We are a bit too theoretically fastidious for such world-geographic excursions, anxious of “views from nowhere” a...

Generically unclassifiable, Ginster is not only a “war novel” that does not focus on war events, but on an everyday life that is the continuation of the war by other means, but also a work with a philosophical and sociological dimension, in which Kracauer thought to have solved the problems that he wanted to discuss in his book, finally not written, on Marx. The protagonist was not only an innovation in terms of the aesthetics of novel, but also Kracauer’s response to the sociological and political debates about the crisis of the individual (and of individualism), the expansion of mass society and the emergence of a new subject in line with the changes experienced by late capitalism.

This chapter discuss the role of colonialism, imperialism, neoliberalism, late capitalism and globalisation in contributing to the current international status of English vis-a-vis other languages in the world. While doing so, it highlights how such processes intertwine in complex ways to affect individuals’ views about the world of language and language in the world. These historical processes are sometimes hard to observe because they are contextual, indexical and not explicitly referenced or talked about. Yet, they shape and influence normative thinking about language in societies. The chapter moves on to critically engage with the term ‘globalisation’, highlighting how globalising processes have created new forms of social divisions that affect language users in the world.

This chapter argues that literary texts that imagine anti- or post-capitalist spaces are important for preparing readers to enter them and to make them possible. Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God explore the sociopolitical significance of the anti-capitalist futures they manifest. Hamid imagines a possible “desirable future,” subverts capitalist myths of inevitability, and implicitly relegates the current apocalyptic narrative trend to a failure of imagination, while Erdrich’s novel takes the shape of a meta-text bent on imagining an alternative future to the future the novel posits. Hamid and Erdrich register the savagery of late capitalism and at the same time extend radical hope in their characters’ forging of interdependence in the place of individualism and their respective worlds’ rewarding of communitarian rather than capitalist values.

The postulation of immaterial labor as something pivotal in the current historical moment is, at the same time, something related to the transformations of contemporary culture in the form of cultural production. We seek to conceive the intertwining between immaterial labor and cultural production as a key aspect of a new historical moment of capitalism or of late capitalism. In this sense, we seek to investigate a few problems that also derive from the Frankfurt School tradition, mainly the concept of cultural industry. Our hypothesis is that the concept of cultural industry and its overcoming by the post-industry era is central to understanding how this new stage demands us to take a new look on the issues of domination and emancipation.

The globalized world is still in the phase of late capitalism, signified by the establishment of multinational corporations, globalized markets and work, mass consumerism, and the fluid flow of capital. The question of the criticism of art towards the capitalist system, its ideology and consumerism is therefore still current and is readdressed in this contribution. Considering this issue, the recurrent theoretical reference is American materialist aesthetician Fredric Jameson, who was among the first to define culture and art in the context of late capitalism. In the article the author revises Jameson’s critique of art addressing consumerism and demonstrates that he did not consider the relevance of the means of consumption as regards the cultural logic of late capitalism. She claims that in order to open space to examine contemporary art as being critical towards consumerism, one also needs to consider the ontological changes that have occurred to art and pay attention to performative art, while Jameson was still focused on a representational mode of art. By being performative and also setting out actions outside of spaces that were traditionally designed for art, in the space meant for consumption, art has much a better chance to act politically, which Jameson wished to see from art which addresses consumerism but did not. The author argues that if one is to seek critical or political art in late capitalism, those would be the cases of artistic interventions into the means of consumption.

Theodor W. Adorno’s engagement with Marx’s thought is a recurrent element in his reflections. One of the very interesting consequences of this “close quarter engagement” is a text that Adorno wrote in 1968; it was first presented by the Frankfurt philosopher to the fourteenth congress of the German Society of Sociology, under the title: “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?”. Later, the text was read at the great symposium on Marx held in Paris from 8 to 10 May 1968. The chapter provides a detailed analysis of this text, which provides the clearest presentation of Adorno’s interpretation of Marx.

Science-Fiction is not only a resource for potentialities of possible futures, but also serves as an archive of past futures and their contemporary reflections on social changes. Within the estranged worlds of the narrations, the authors present the contemporary imaginaries of how society should (or should not) develop in the future. William Gibson’s Neuromancer is an important example of this archive. In a dizzyingly detailed description, Gibson depicts a dystopian future dominated by the prevailing irritations and common uncertainties about the future caused by the all-encompassing changes of the 1980s, a decade in which western societies were entering an era of late capitalism with new global market structures and the embedding of new technologies in the everyday life on a unprecedented scale. Within his world Gibson extrapolates the technological potentialities of new and emerging digital technologies like virtual reality, artificial intelligence and a digital Cyberspace, which is similar to what is today known as the internet, and lays out the implicit sociotechnical imaginaries of his generation. Reciprocally, his novel fostered and distributed the structure of feeling of the ‘80s on a larger scale, as it became one of the pioneer works of the emerging Cyberpunk movement—an influential vision of the future of outgoing twentieth century. This essay is exploring the sociotechnical imaginaries by analyzing the role of new technologies within the power structures of Neuromancers storyworld.

The psychological ferment of fascism in late capitalist societies appears linked to the process of weakening of the ego and the necessary interweaving of subjective dispositions with situational factors. Unravelling the mechanisms that influence the expansion of the potentially fascist character requires an analysis of personality tendencies that favor its acceptance and how they are fostered by certain social processes. This article focuses on the influence and interaction of three objective factors and three subjective factors. For this we rely mainly on studies on fascist propaganda and mass culture carried out by the authors of the first Critical Theory. El fermento psicológico del fascismo en las sociedades capitalistas tardías aparece vinculado al proceso de debilitamiento del yo y al necesario entrelazamiento de las disposiciones subjetivas con factores situacionales. Desentrañar los mecanismos que inciden en la expansión del carácter potencialmente fascista requiere de un análisis de las tendencias de la personalidad que favorecen su arraigo y cómo se ven fomentadas por determinados procesos sociales. El presente artículo se centra en el influjo y la interacción de tres factores objetivos y tres factores subjetivos. Para ello nos apoyamos principalmente en los estudios sobre la propaganda fascista y la cultura de masas llevados a cabo por los autores de la primera Teoría Crítica.

This study is mainly influenced by the idea of Manfredo Tafuri that architecture cannot fulfil its ideological task since it started serving capitalism and there are no more utopias. In his book Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, Tafuri discusses the socio-philosophical tangle in which architects have been struggling since the 18th century. According to Tafuri, the drama of today's architecture is the obligation to return to pure architecture, a matter of form without utopia, supreme uselessness. Another influence on the study is Richard Sennett’s book The Corrosion of Character. Sennett mentions the concept of flexible capitalism and explains that work life is not as rigid as it was before. According to Sennett, flexibility has an impact on personal character and asks questions about how to decide the lasting value of we in an impatient society, how to pursue a long-term goal in a short-term economy, how to sustain loyalties to the continually redesigning institutions. Purpose The thoughts of Tafuri and Sennett are discussed through Patrik Schumacher’s Parametricism manifesto. In the manifesto, Schumacher reflects architecture’s evolving patterns of communication in relation to its social task. The main objective of the study is to propose a future space based on the ideas of Tafuri, Sennett and Schumacher. Design/Methodology/Approach This paper discusses the reviews of books of Tafuri and Sennett and manifesto of Schumacher as a methodology. Findings After the reviews of The Corrosion of Character and Architecture and Utopia, there is a discussion of flexible space through parametric design approach. Finally, there is the prediction of future space based on the findings in the previous sections. Research Limitations/Implications There are no research limitations for this paper. Social/Practical Implications According to this paper, parametric design method can be used in practice to achieve the spaces that are needed by the complex society of global era. Originality/Value This paper synthesizes the ideas of two great thinkers, who have influential discourses on architecture and business world, and approaches them from the perspective of parametric design as one of today's design tools, to make predictions about the future space.

This article focuses on memoirs that grapple with how to resolve tensions between ‘work,’ labor performed for a wage or salary, and ‘the Work,’ a creative pursuit performed for reasons beyond material necessity. Dorothea Brande’sBecoming a Writer(1934) andWake up and Live!(1936), like many self-help publications of their kind, position writing and other creative pursuits as acts of living that stand in opposition to the necessity of making a living. Recently, however, a number of publications on “the writing life” have begun to complicate this opposition. When considering works ranging from Annie Dillard’s 1989The Writing Lifeto Deborah Levy’sThings I Don’t Want to Know(2013) andThe Cost of Living(2018) and Alexander Chee’sHow to Write and Autobiographical Novel(2018), it seems that the dichotomy of work vs. writing life is not simply undergoing demystification but also reconceptualization. These contemporary literary-advice memoirs thematize dissolutions between work, personal, and writing lives, thereby also disrupting generic patterns in issuing literary advice. They push the literary advice genre away from technicalities and visions of artistic autonomy and toward accounts of creative production that is subject to the demands placed on creative workers throughout the white-collar labor market of late capitalism.

Along with the recent development of various theories of the body, Lacan’s body theory aligns with postmodern thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who consider the body to be social and not biological. Lacan emphasizes the body for the Real, the passive condition of the body in terms of formation, identity, and understanding. This condition of the body is further evident in the condition of bodies of women and laborers under patriarchy and capitalism, respectively. Lacan’s ‘not all’ position, which is envisioned in the logical square diagram, allows women a way to question the system of patriarchy and opens up alternative sexual identities. Lacan’s approach to feminine sexuality, when applied to women’s spirituality, emphasizes multiple narratives of body, gender roles, and sexualities. In the social discernment and analyses of liberation theology, the capitalist discourse can be applied as a tool to understand how people are manipulated by late capitalist society without being aware of it. Lacan’s theory of a ‘body without a head’ reflects the current condition of the human body, existing in a state of lack, but including possibilities for transforming society.

In this paper, I will firstly explain the relationship between affect and play, and how play resists representation. Following this, I will touch on Daniel Stern’s concept of affective attunement that points out how a baby stimulates their caregivers to use expressions having some artistic elements like music, tempo and rhythm. Hence, criticism as a play-space might pave the way for a transgenerational encounter field which, consequently, allows us to think of a kind of criticism that breaks dichotomies to go beyond representations and the prevalent forms of thinking.

This chapter aims to effectuate a methodological shift in the way that feminists think about, and discuss, sex work, one that is animated not by a politics of harm and injury as mandated by the continuing dominance of the radical feminist analytic of sex work but by an aspiration for redistribution. In a study of sexual economies within late capitalism in the context of the HIV epidemic, Linda Singer observes that a central feature of a sexual economy under late capitalism is that it forms a unitary system, which for its survival, necessarily involves a binary system of regulation. In this chapter, the author contemplates the implications of the work position for family law on the relationship between sex work and marriage. The fact-scenarios will demonstrate the relevance of all three approaches to the relationship between sex work and marriage.

Resumo Partindo de estudos sobre a experiência de tempo no capitalismo tardio, o artigo concentra-se nos temas de tempo de trabalho e renda básica, vinculando-os às crises social e econômica que vivenciamos atualmente. Com base na análise desses dois temas relacionados, eu lido com o debate a respeito dos mesmos desde os anos 1970 até o momento presente. Argumento que a opção neoliberal por fundamentalismo de mercado levou ao crescimento da pobreza e da desigualdade social, situação agravada pela atual pandemia de Covid-19. Para combater as extremas pobreza e desigualdade social, concluo propondo a adoção de uma renda básica universal não apenas durante a pandemia, mas como estratégia permanente para proteger o tecido social dos efeitos destrutivos de uma expansão descontrolada da lógica de mercado sobre a vida das pessoas. Abstract Drawing on researches that diagnosis the experience of time in Late Capitalism the article focus on the themes of labor time and basic income, connecting them to the social and economic crises we live nowadays. Based on the analysis of these two related themes, I deal with the debate of these subjects from the 1970’s to the present moment. I argue here that the neoliberal option for a market fundamentalism lead to an increase in poverty and social inequality, situation aggravated by the actual Covid-19 Pandemic. In order to fight poverty and extreme social inequality, I conclude by proposing the adoption of a universal basic income, not only as an emergency measure during the Pandemic, but as a permanent strategy to protect the social tissue from the destructive effects of an uncontrolled widespread market logic on peoples’ life.

This paper confronts the idea of progress as a solution to the environmental disasters of our times. To do so, it dialogues with, and goes beyond, recent scholarly debate around issues of ecological/planetary crisis produced by late capitalism. At the same time, it seeks to contextualize the debate on development based on the Brazilian colonial heritage. Inspired by Walter Benjamin, It proposes an analysis of such endangered conditions. Benjamin evokes the need for radical and urgent shift in the current development paradigm that informs even progressive policies against environmental degradation. Finally, the paper invites reflections on the challenges and possibilities presented by the so-called “ecosocialist alternative.” Would it be a viable response to reimagine the relationship between human beeings in society and nature? The conclusion points out the pertinence of the theoretical framework, especially if observed the technological development of the last decades. The consequences of the handling of natural resources may be seen in the social and environment contexts.

Este artículo explora, a partir de fuentes etnográficas, la forma en que los miembros de la escena musical neobakala lidian, mediante prácticas rituales y carnavalescas, con los estados afectivos derivados de la vida urbana en el capitalismo tardío. Con este fin, este trabajo toma como referencia la propuesta teórica y metodológica sobre la afectividad de Alexandre Surrallés (2005 y 2009). En este sentido, este texto se adentra en el cuerpo y la persona capitalista para, a partir de ahí, identificar contextualmente sus estados de ánimo, sus relatos identitarios y los grupos sobre los cuales este relato se despliega y repliega. En este plano afectivo, este trabajo, donde la nostalgia es un aspecto central, también tiene en cuenta otros aportes hechos, de nuevo, desde la antropología, como son los de Appadurai (2001) o Hirai (2009). Por último, el artículo se adentra en las relaciones entre la nostalgia y la memoria y muestra cómo, en este caso, la memoria parece erosionarse por la acción de la nostalgia.

What does late capitalism’s mode of temporality reveal about the logic linked to its mode of production? This article establishes a dialogue between theoretical works concerned with this question and Jeff Noon’s speculative fiction novel Falling out of Cars. By drawing on Marxist criticism in the works of Fredric Jameson and Gilles Deleuzeand Félix Guattari, it argues thatFalling out of Cars develops a catatonic mode of temporality that critically challenges these authors’ diagnosis of schizophrenia as the cultural logic of late capitalism. Noon’s novel offers a dystopian version of the future in which catatonic subjects function as the norm for the system’s optimal operation. The catatonic temporality of the novel emerges as the logic underlying this transformation, namely, as the passive assimilation of the individual to the system’s economic rationale, which no longer needs human agency in order to operate. Falling out of Cars does not only deploy these narrative techniques on a purely aesthetic basis, but explicitly links them to the objective conditions of the world they aim to represent. In this sense, Noon’s novel suggests catatonia as the dominant logic leading to capitalism’s terminal stage in which individuals no longer possess agency to take control of their lives.

Esse texto consubstancia um esforço teórico-conceitual de localizar a cultura – de modo mais geral – e o esporte – de maneira mais específica – no arcabouço da produção capitalista contemporânea. Para tanto, buscou-se refletir sobre o desenvolvimento da cultura no âmbito do capitalismo tardio com atenção para a aproximação entre cultura, economia e mercado. Isso com a finalidade de compreender as transformações que, nessa quadra histórica, atravessam o esporte moderno. Assim, as considerações apontam para os processos de integração entre economia de mercado e cultura de massa. O que têm levado, sobretudo no campo esportivo, à produção de um conjunto de mercadorias (commodities culturais) que passou a interagir com vários setores produtivos do mundo capitalista que, não obstante, delas precisam para viabilizar acúmulos e gerar lucros., This text embodies a theoretical and conceptual effort to locate culture - more generally - and sport - more specifically - within the framework of contemporary capitalist production. Therefore, we sought to reflect on the development of culture in the context of late capitalism with attention to the approximation between culture, economy and market. This is done in order to understand the transformations that, in this historical court, go through modern sport. Thus, the considerations point to the processes of integration between market economy and mass culture. This has led, especially in the sports field, to the production of a set of commodities (cultural commodities) that have come to interact with various productive sectors of the capitalist world, which nevertheless need them to make accumulations and generate possible profits., Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación