Richard Godden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Godden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Godden |
| SIGNATURE | GODDEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Speculating on Empty Time
The bodies in the bubble
While predominantly concerned with the transformation of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the 1980s, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King (2011) represents signal contradictions in the nature of money, from 1971 (when Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold) to the events of the 2008 financial crisis (when derivative trading dominated global financial markets). As unstable admixtures of abstraction and concreteness…
Fictions of fictitious capital
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho, 1991 [set 1989]) lives on the dash between the M's (M-M1-M2), as represented by Marx's formula for finance (or ‘fictitious’) capital. M differs from M1 (and so on) insofar as the increase represents money made from money (or from financial instruments) rather than from production (or M-C-M1, where ‘C’ may be understood either as Commodity [produced, distributed, consumed] or as Capital [accumulated prior to inves…
William Faulkner
Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939
Franklin D. Roosevelt once described South as the nation's number one economic problem. These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in plac…
Blood Meridian', or the evening redness in the east
Blood Meridian (1985), written a decade after US withdrawal from Vietnam and even as Reaganite policies actively destabilized Nicaragua and sustained the despicable in El Salvador, centres nominally on Sonora, Mexico. However, we argue that, from the perspective of the post-1975 USA, Sonora specifically and systematically resembles South Vietnam, with the Treaty of Guadalupe (1848) resembling the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Central to McCarthy's d…
Find the Jew
Fictions of Labor
Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the Southern economy from the antebellum period through to the New Deal. This book seeks to link stylistic aspects of Faulkner's writing to a generative social trauma which constitutes its formal core. That trauma, Godden argues, is a labour trauma, centred on the debilitating discovery by the Southern owning class of its own producti…
Fictions of Capital
What Did You Do in the Study Daddy
Victorian diary Florence Bosworth
Fictions of fictitious capital
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho, 1991 [set 1989]) lives on the dash between the M's (M-M1-M2), as represented by Marx's formula for finance (or ‘fictitious’) capital. M differs from M1 (and so on) insofar as the increase represents money made from money (or from financial instruments) rather than from production (or M-C-M1, where ‘C’ may be understood either as Commodity [produced, distributed, consumed] or as Capital [accumulated prior to inves…
Victorian diary Florence Bosworth
What Did You Do in the Study Daddy
Fictions of Capital
Fictions of Labor
Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the Southern economy from the antebellum period through to the New Deal. This book seeks to link stylistic aspects of Faulkner's writing to a generative social trauma which constitutes its formal core. That trauma, Godden argues, is a labour trauma, centred on the debilitating discovery by the Southern owning class of its own producti…
Find the Jew
Blood Meridian', or the evening redness in the east
Blood Meridian (1985), written a decade after US withdrawal from Vietnam and even as Reaganite policies actively destabilized Nicaragua and sustained the despicable in El Salvador, centres nominally on Sonora, Mexico. However, we argue that, from the perspective of the post-1975 USA, Sonora specifically and systematically resembles South Vietnam, with the Treaty of Guadalupe (1848) resembling the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Central to McCarthy's d…
Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939
Franklin D. Roosevelt once described South as the nation's number one economic problem. These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in plac…
William Faulkner
Fictions of fictitious capital
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho, 1991 [set 1989]) lives on the dash between the M's (M-M1-M2), as represented by Marx's formula for finance (or ‘fictitious’) capital. M differs from M1 (and so on) insofar as the increase represents money made from money (or from financial instruments) rather than from production (or M-C-M1, where ‘C’ may be understood either as Commodity [produced, distributed, consumed] or as Capital [accumulated prior to inves…
The bodies in the bubble
While predominantly concerned with the transformation of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the 1980s, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King (2011) represents signal contradictions in the nature of money, from 1971 (when Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold) to the events of the 2008 financial crisis (when derivative trading dominated global financial markets). As unstable admixtures of abstraction and concreteness…
Speculating on Empty Time
Language
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
History (9 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works)