Volume 22, Numbers 1-2

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This issue theoretically engages the referential and figural use of austerity.  What is austerity?  What are the social, political, economic and intellectual dimensions of austerity? Who is the paradigmatic subject of austerity?  Is its meaning transhistorical and transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and thus irremediably discursive and historically contingent?  Whose austerity is acknowledged and whose is ignored?  Is austerity an ontological concern? Does austerity have an aesthetics?  Can an inquiry into austerity ever be disentangled from neoliberalism?  How have austerity measures affected the contemporary academic culture? Articles in this issue are available FREE to all readers thanks to Project Muse.

Contents

Henry A. Giroux
Austerity and the Poison of Neoliberal Miseducation

Christopher Breu
Against Austerity

Kenneth J. Saltman
The Austerity School

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
A Dog’s Life

Robert Appelbaum
The Cultural Logic of Austerity

Marcia Klotz
The Debt Economy and the Politics of Profanation

J. Paul Narkunas
Austere Subjectivity and Tea Parties

Michelle Ty
Austerity and the Speculative Logic of Derivatives

Aaron Mauro
Ordinary Happiness

Vincent Bruyere
Of a Survivalist Tone Adopted in Literary Studies