Alissa G Karl
Biographic Data
| ID | 144474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alissa G Karl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alissa G |
| FAMILY NAME | Karl |
| SIGNATURE | KARL A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Brockport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rereading Empathy
Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what …
The Extra-Capitalist Extreme
Research Article| September 01 2016 The Extra-Capitalist Extreme Alissa G. Karl Alissa G. Karl SUNY College at Brockport [email protected] Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport. Her research investigates the intersection of economics and literary and cultural form in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is author of Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Ca…
The zero hour of the neoliberal novel
This essay examines how contemporary neoliberal regimes of labour are formalized and historicized within the recent novel. Specifically, I elaborate on the status of the labouring body in neoliberal labour markets as decidedly linked to the evacuation of linear temporality, and claim that contemporary novels are similarly invested in exploring new forms of historical and temporal anachrony, and in linking these to matters of bodily cohesion and s…
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Economic Present
This introduction to the issue offers an overview of current debates on neoliberalism as it relates to the contemporary novel. Distinguishing it from the novel of globalisation and the cosmopolitan novel, we suggest that the neoliberal novel is one particularly attuned to the economic rationalities of its time; it signals an attention to the ways novels circulate in an economic and geopolitical field and a consideration of the apparatus that stru…
Bank Talk,' Performativity and Financial Markets
This essay posits the ontology and tendencies of financial markets as akin to those of fiction – as neither actual nor false, but (re)affirmed in each instance through re-citation and interpretation. To do this, the paper analyzes the generic development of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statements issued by the United States Federal Reserve since 1994 to understand the interpretive acts and the presumptions about markets that these sta…
Goldfinger's gold standard: Negotiating the economic nation in mid-twentieth century Britain
`Goldfinger's gold standard' reads the James Bond/007 spy film Goldfinger (1964) to interrogate how economic institutions and ideas shape a British national imaginary during the decolonising mid-century. I argue that Goldfinger answers anxieties about the loss of British `standards' of global authority by economically delimiting the nation and privileging cultural Britishness, at the same time that the film acknowledges the flexibility and the ir…
Modernism's Risky Business: Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, and American Consumer Capitalism
This essay evaluates how American expatriate modernist projects were structured by ideas about commerce and consumerism prominent in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. The study describes how Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Sylvia Beach's memoir Shakespeare and Company (1956) use ideas about consumer capitalism espoused by U.S. consumer elites (policy makers, industrialists, and p…
Bank Talk,' Performativity and Financial Markets
This essay posits the ontology and tendencies of financial markets as akin to those of fiction – as neither actual nor false, but (re)affirmed in each instance through re-citation and interpretation. To do this, the paper analyzes the generic development of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statements issued by the United States Federal Reserve since 1994 to understand the interpretive acts and the presumptions about markets that these sta…
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Economic Present
This introduction to the issue offers an overview of current debates on neoliberalism as it relates to the contemporary novel. Distinguishing it from the novel of globalisation and the cosmopolitan novel, we suggest that the neoliberal novel is one particularly attuned to the economic rationalities of its time; it signals an attention to the ways novels circulate in an economic and geopolitical field and a consideration of the apparatus that stru…
Goldfinger's gold standard: Negotiating the economic nation in mid-twentieth century Britain
`Goldfinger's gold standard' reads the James Bond/007 spy film Goldfinger (1964) to interrogate how economic institutions and ideas shape a British national imaginary during the decolonising mid-century. I argue that Goldfinger answers anxieties about the loss of British `standards' of global authority by economically delimiting the nation and privileging cultural Britishness, at the same time that the film acknowledges the flexibility and the ir…
Modernism's Risky Business: Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, and American Consumer Capitalism
This essay evaluates how American expatriate modernist projects were structured by ideas about commerce and consumerism prominent in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. The study describes how Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Sylvia Beach's memoir Shakespeare and Company (1956) use ideas about consumer capitalism espoused by U.S. consumer elites (policy makers, industrialists, and p…
Bank Talk,' Performativity and Financial Markets
This essay posits the ontology and tendencies of financial markets as akin to those of fiction – as neither actual nor false, but (re)affirmed in each instance through re-citation and interpretation. To do this, the paper analyzes the generic development of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statements issued by the United States Federal Reserve since 1994 to understand the interpretive acts and the presumptions about markets that these sta…
The zero hour of the neoliberal novel
This essay examines how contemporary neoliberal regimes of labour are formalized and historicized within the recent novel. Specifically, I elaborate on the status of the labouring body in neoliberal labour markets as decidedly linked to the evacuation of linear temporality, and claim that contemporary novels are similarly invested in exploring new forms of historical and temporal anachrony, and in linking these to matters of bodily cohesion and s…
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Economic Present
This introduction to the issue offers an overview of current debates on neoliberalism as it relates to the contemporary novel. Distinguishing it from the novel of globalisation and the cosmopolitan novel, we suggest that the neoliberal novel is one particularly attuned to the economic rationalities of its time; it signals an attention to the ways novels circulate in an economic and geopolitical field and a consideration of the apparatus that stru…
The Extra-Capitalist Extreme
Research Article| September 01 2016 The Extra-Capitalist Extreme Alissa G. Karl Alissa G. Karl SUNY College at Brockport [email protected] Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport. Her research investigates the intersection of economics and literary and cultural form in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is author of Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Ca…
Rereading Empathy
Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what …
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)