Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. William Blake: Prophet against Empire Introduction, Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present Excerpt from Mots d'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds Why Are We Not Roused to Action? 2. 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 3. 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 4. Looking for Disorder in Literary Worlds Mapping the Inconceivable: Disordering Taxonomies 5. Postmodernity Is a Hoot Go to Citizen Kane to Find Twentieth-Century Modernism: On the Edge of Postmodernity The Deep Morals of Inglourious Basterds 6. At the Theory Carnival Preface to Tracing Literary Theory Preface to Literary Theory's Future(s) 7. 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. 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 Hearing the Ping of Poverty--or Not 8. Railing through Europe: "Is This a Postmodern World?" 1995 --2010 This Is a Picture and Not the World 9. 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 10. Popular Culture: What I Did at the Movies Doing the American Hustle The Hateful Eight: History's Dark Bounty 11. I Roam into TV: Rebel Sons, Foodies, DBs, TV Pharmacy, and Sports TV's Rebel Sons: The Anger of Deep Revolt Autopsy TV Food TV The Emergence of Greater-than-Human Sports...and Baseball 12. Dark Affinities Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal The Economics of Immiseration/The Politics of Seduction US Higher Education: The New "Treasure Island" for Investors Plutocracy, Gentrification, and Racial Violence 13. 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? 14. Portrait of Generation Next To Gaga Is to Dada The Twitter Moment Living Backward: The Millennials' Alice Our Millennial Age of Magic 15. Occupy Wall Street Epilogue to the Kindle Publication of Occupying Here & Now: The New Class Warfare Psychomachia: Battles within the American Cultural Psyche 16. 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 Bibliography Index

About the Author

Now retired, Joseph Natoli spent more than four decades teaching at the university level and twenty years as the editor of the SUNY book series in Postmodern Culture. He is the author of many books, including Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture 1990-1992; Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995; Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998; Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999-2000; and This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America, all published by SUNY Press.

Reviews

"Reading Dark Affinities is a welcome break from the neoliberal buzzword-speak of politicians and university administrators. It reminds me why I entered academia, when it was a profession and not a business, and when modeling thinking actually mattered." - Alison Lee, University of Western Ontario "Natoli's Dark Affinities reads as a culminating work of scholarship, marshaling evidence from autobiography, literary analysis, critical theory, and everyday culture in support of its claims. Natoli presents his personal history in the same spirit that Raymond Williams did: as evidence for the ways that cultural forces shape individuals, and as grounds for the shaping of his intellectual and political practice." - Jeff Karnicky, author of Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture