The Specter of Materialism
The Specter of Materialism
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Explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession. Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.
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The Specter of Materialism by Petrus Liu
Explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession. Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusglobal capitalisms latest mutationto develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.
"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thoughtThis review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." -- Wenqing Kang * Modern Chinese Literature And Culture *
"The Specter of Materialism is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead." -- Rebecca Karl * Chinese Literature *
"The Specter of Materialism is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead." -- Rebecca Karl * Chinese Literature *
Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781478019428 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478019425 |
| Title | The Specter of Materialism |
| Author | Petrus Liu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2023-01-13 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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