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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One William Blake: Prophet against Empire -- Introduction, Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present -- The Pragmatics of Reading Blake -- The Politics of Blakean Criticism -- Excerpt from Mots d'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds -- Blake's Marriage -- "The Argument": The Play of Disorder -- Why Are We Not Roused to Action? -- Notes -- Chapter Two A Patient Appears at the Psychiatrist's Office: The Turn to Phenomenological Psychopathology -- Dark Affinities: The Father -- Phenomenological Psychology and Literary Interpretation -- The Code of Crisis and Disaster -- Notes -- Chapter Three The World Is a Book -- Textual Studies and the Selection of Editions -- Meditating on a Postmodern Strategy of Reading -- Endless Deferment: The Inequitable Melee of Events and Words -- Notes -- Chapter Four Looking for Disorder in Literary Worlds -- Mapping the Inconceivable: Disordering Taxonomies -- Note -- Chapter Five Postmodernity Is a Hoot -- Go to Citizen Kane to Find Twentieth-Century Modernism: On the Edge of Postmodernity -- The Deep Morals of Inglourious Basterds -- Notes -- Chapter Six At the Theory Carnival -- Preface to Tracing Literary Theory -- Preface to Literary Theory's Future(s) -- Notes -- Chapter Seven Into the American Mass Psyche of the Nineties -- Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture -- Hunting the Haunted Heart -- Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995 -- Court and Culture: The Days of Our Life with O.J. -- One Hundred Days of the O.J. Trial -- Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998 -- That Rug Really Tied the Room Together -- Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999-2000 -- After September 11, 2001 -- Revised Ending, September 2014 -- Hearing the Ping of Poverty-or Not -- Notes.
Chapter Eight Railing through Europe: "Is This a Postmodern World?" 1995-2010 -- This Is a Picture and Not the World -- From "Behind the Scenes: A Preproduction Q & -- A" -- From "Outtake: Postmodern Screwball" -- From "Futurescape" -- From "Noirscape" -- From "Sneak Preview: Magic Town: America's Heartland" -- From "Documentary: The Short-Term Memory Detective" -- From "Shortscape: Never Far from Melodrama" -- From "Fearscape/Thrillscape/Nightscape" -- From "American Cool" -- Note -- Chapter Nine A Long Journey to Find an Online Political Home -- Truthout's Public Intellectual Project -- Political Affairs: "From each according to his ability, to each according to their work" -- Why the Rich Get Richer and Other Truth Stories -- Bad Subjects: Politics in Everyday Life -- The Leftist Psyche -- The "Free Exchange of Ideas": Our New Normal -- Counterpunching -- Gun Control, Illegal Aliens, Moochers, Planned Parenthood, Gay Marriages, "Big Brother" Government, and Obama -- Notes -- Chapter Ten Popular Culture: What I Did at the Movies -- Doing the American Hustle -- The Hateful Eight: History's Dark Bounty -- Notes -- Chapter Eleven I Roam into TV: Rebel Sons, Foodies, DBs, TV Pharmacy, and Sports -- TV's Rebel Sons: The Anger of Deep Revolt -- I. -- II. -- III. -- Autopsy TV -- Food TV -- The Emergence of Greater-than-Human Sports . . . and Baseball -- Notes -- Chapter Twelve Dark Affinities -- Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal -- The Economics of Immiseration/The Politics of Seduction -- US Higher Education: The New "Treasure Island" for Investors -- I -- II. -- Plutocracy, Gentrification, and Racial Violence -- Notes -- Chapter Thirteen Dark Imaginaries -- What Climate Scenarios Do We Imagine? -- A Modest Proposal, 2014 -- The Coming Transformation of Work to Leisure -- The American Middle Class: The Political Chosen People? -- Notes.
Chapter Fourteen Portrait of Generation Next -- To Gaga Is to Dada -- The Twitter Moment -- Living Backward: The Millennials' Alice -- Our Millennial Age of Magic -- Notes -- Chapter Fifteen Occupy Wall Street -- Epilogue to the Kindle Publication of Occupying Here & -- Now: The New Class Warfare -- Psychomachia: Battles within the American Cultural Psyche -- Occupiers Break Through: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For -- Note -- Chapter Sixteen Travels of a New Gulliver -- In Which the Author Introduces Himself and Then Sets Out -- The Author Is Admitted to The Academy, Inhabited by Enormous-Headed Giants -- Visits The Wick, the Great Augury, and The Singularity Club -- Meets a Terrorist, and Then Ends Badly -- The Author Comes to the End of His Travels -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index.
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